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Mexican legislative reforms on investment and security

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The Mexican Senate is advancing several presidential initiatives aimed at reforming investment, consumer protection, and intellectual property laws. Regarding consumer rights, the Senate Economy Commission has approved a draft report to reform the Federal Consumer Protection Law. This amendment seeks to prohibit providers from setting different prices for substantially equivalent goods or services based on gender, unless differences are justified by objective and verifiable factors such as quality, composition, quantity, functionality, or specific commercialization costs. In terms of national security and investment, the Senate's joint commissions for Economy and Legislative Studies have advanced reforms to the Foreign Investment Law. Proposed Law (LIE), establishing a formal national security scrutiny mechanism for foreign acquisitions. The initiative, proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Sheinbaum, targets transactions where a foreign investor seeks to acquire more than 49% of a Mexican company's capital in strategic sectors, provided specific monetary thresholds are met. Under the initiative expands reform, the National Commission of Foreign Investment Commission (CNIE) by incorporating will oversee the review process. The commission's membership is expanded to include the heads of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, National Defense (Sedena), the Secretariat of National Defense, the Navy (Semar), and the Secretariat of the Navy. Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). Other entities, including the Attorney General's Office, Office (FGR), the National Intelligence Center, Center (CNI), the Tax Administration Service, Service (SAT), and the Financial Intelligence Unit, Unit (UIF), will participate in security-related matters with voice but without vote. A formal national security scrutiny mechanism Scrutiny will be triggered when a foreign investor seeks to acquire more than 49% of the capital in a Mexican company with assets exceeding a specific threshold and operating in focus on sensitive sectors. These sectors include areas such as strategic physical and virtual infrastructure (energy, transport, communications), critical technologies (AI, semiconductors, cybersecurity), essential supplies (food dual-use products, food security, raw materials), and the management of sensitive information management. While information. Following Senate approval, the reform aims has been sent to protect sovereignty, some legislators have raised concerns regarding legal certainty and the potential impact on capital inflows and job creation in border regions such as Coahuila. Additionally, Chamber of Deputies for further discussion. While the Senate is set to analyze modifications measures aim to protect sovereignty, the Federal Penal Code International Chamber of Commerce México (ICC México) has emphasized that rules must be “clear, transparent, and the Federal Law objective to avoid creating uncertainty for international investors.” The organization suggested that Mexico could align its processes with existing mechanisms in Canada and the Protection of Industrial Property United States to strengthen protections against piracy and counterfeiting. improve North American coordination regarding supply chain relocation.

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  1. 2026-10-07 20:04 UTC Mexican legislative reforms on investment and security
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