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12. Sectors: Mexico

Sectors in Mexico: which activities are open to 100 percent foreign ownership, which are reserved to the State or to Mexicans and which are capped, how private capital takes part in electricity and oil and gas under the 2025 energy laws, how mining concessions are won, kept and taxed, and how telecom and broadcasting concessions work. Each rule is tied to the official text and checked against it.

Investor view. With most sectors fully open, private power for own use permitted from day one and mining and telecom available to 100 percent foreign owned Mexican companies, Mexico offers wide, rules based room for growth capital alongside a larger State role in energy.

Sectors in Mexico: foreign ownership caps by activity, electricity under the 2025 Electricity Sector Law, oil and gas through Pemex mixed contracts, mining concessions and duties, and telecom concessionsMost of the Mexican economy is open to 100 percent foreign ownership, but a short list of activities is reserved to the State or to Mexicans, a few carry 10 or 49 percent caps, and others need Foreign