Mexico‘s government reported that it plans to boost textile production by 5 billion dollars in the coming years.

At current prices, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the textile and apparel industry in Mexico was 488 billion pesos in 2024, according to Inegi data.

Textile production

The government of President Claudia Sheinbaum has implemented a three-phase strategy to recover more than 80,000 jobs lost in the textile industry. The first consisted of confiscating products illegally entering the country; the second involved canceling the IMMEX program to companies that used it improperly; and the third is a B2B meeting between buyers and sellers in the sector.

«Our goal is, more or less, to grow this effort from now on. We are going to maintain and perfect other measures to grow our capacity by more than $5 billion,» Marcelo Ebrard, secretary of Economy, said Wednesday at the B2B meeting, organized in Mexico City.

The following is the annual production of inputs, textiles and apparel in this sector in Mexico, in billions of current pesos:

• 2018: 484.
• 2019: 489.
• 2020: 404.
• 2021: 502.
• 2022: 558.
• 2023: 514.
• 2024: 488.

Origin of the industry 

At the event, Ebrard recalled that the first Mexican industry was a textile company.

«It was called Constancia Mexicana, many years ago, in the 19th century. And then Mexican industrialization, to a large extent, revolved around the textile industry. So, the future also has to do with the textile industry,» Ebrard recalled.

In 2024, Mexico’s GDP in the manufacture of textile inputs and textile finishing was 131 billion pesos; in the manufacture of textile products, except garments, it totaled 78 billion, and in the manufacture of garments it stood at 279 billion.

“The textile industry is playing a very important, I would say, vanguard role,” Ebrard commented at the event. “What you are doing has to do with the textile industry, employment, investments and sales: it has to do with the whole economy of the country.”