The organism reports its closing figures for 2024 and the strategic projects for 2025; The closing by September 2024 registers 29.9 million dollar
The organism reports its closing figures for 2024 and the strategic projects for 2025;
The closing by September 2024 registers 29.9 million dollars in exports
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Guanajuato reached 29.9 billion dollars as of September 2024.
“We estimate that we will be closing this year with a historic figure. We will be informing you about the closing at the beginning of next year. We have a variation of 14.39 percent, that is, a very significant growth in exports. We have not stopped growing since the post-pandemic, and this makes us very happy but also very committed and busy,” said Luis Rojas Avila, the General Director of COFOCE.
A total of 1,861 exporting companies have been achieved, with which Guanajuato is consolidated as the state with the highest number of exporting companies in all of Mexico.
COFOCE registered 37 exporting municipalities in Guanajuato, of which Silao, Celaya, Apaseo el Grande, Salamanca and Irapuato are in the top 5.
By sector, the industrial/metalworking sector represents 90.3 percent of exports, followed by the agro-food sector with 6.4 percent, which has not stopped growing in recent years, followed by the fashion sector with 2.6 percent, construction with 0.4 percent and crafts with 0.3 percent.
Guanajuato’s main export destinations, which are the United States and Canada, represent 94.1 percent of exports. Through the T-Mec and Nearshoring, we have become the first commercial partner of the neighboring country, the first supplier of fresh and frozen foods, frozen beverages, light vehicles, among other.
The agro-food sector represents 1,926 million dollars in exports, of which there are 271 exporting companies, and one of the achievements of this year is having reached 80 percent of exporting municipalities in this sector, within which the five main exporting municipalities are:
- Irapuato, Dr. Mora, Silao, San Miguel de Allande, San Francisco del Rincon
“It is a project that has been gaining more and more importance. Yesterday, Secretary Cristina Villasenor told me that it was shared in the heart of AMSDE, and this project was highly applauded at the federal level, for the impact it has and for being the only ones in Guanajuato outside of the Asian continent that have managed to trigger a project of this level”, said Rojas Avila.
Among the projects to be launched by 2025 are the Prosperity Ecosystems, which aim to strengthen the growth of key productive sectors, promoting equitable and sustainable progress, providing local producers with the necessary tools to diversify their markets and ensure that their products reach other countries, promoting fair, inclusive and responsible trade, in order to improve people’s quality of life and generate a positive impact on their communities.
This project, which was the digital villages, is now transformed into Prosperity Ecosystems, a project that was inspired to us by Alibaba in China, but we adapted and strengthened it for Guanajuato, with which we have managed to sell 10 million dollars of these products in the world. However, beyond the numbers, the objective of bringing prosperity to the families and communities of the State has been achieved.
Thus, one of the objectives for 2025 is to promote the berry ecosystem in Guanajuato, where “the objective is to promote the commercialization of this product, so noble in a market as important as the United States, Canada and Japan, the best practices are being implemented to improve the quality, safety, harmlessness, traceability of these foods and to be able to implement them in the export chains.
The objective is not to generate demand but to generate supply, providing added value that will allow this product to be placed in the aforementioned countries.
Another project is the Industrial Connection, aiming to enable large industries to connect with the two large spheres, between global companies and economic units, that is, to achieve a supply connection with the industries of Guanajuato.
And finally, the kabocha squash, onion and radicchio project with Italy. A project that started in 2024 and will bear fruit in 2025. Italian produce is planted on Guanajuato soil to be able to be sent directly to states in Mexico, the United States, and other countries.
“This project is to sell in Mexico, North American States, Italy and all the other states where COFOCE already exports, we are here because our project is a reality, in three months we will be ready to send the first product to Italy and that is a source of pride for us and we are very, very happy,” said Marco Pacifico, founding partner of the company Evergreen.
The collaborative work with Italy has resulted in major projects.
“Because COFOCE has truly been and continues to be the gateway to Mexico for us, and not only for Mexico, because thanks to their ability we always have the opportunity to present interesting projects and almost always carry them out, we are happy to take advantage of this alliance with a great state like Guanajuato,” said Massimiliano Gambini, General Director of ICEPS of Italy.
COFOCE and the Government of the People will continue working on inclusive export projects and constant economic growth and prosperity that benefit the people of Guanajuato.
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