Who receives an investor
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The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.
Institutions and investment promotion
35 topicsThe Ministry of the Economy (MINECO) is the lead body for investment and trade policy, and it was MINECO that launched the National Strategy for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment. Its head is Minister of the Economy Gabriela García, in the government of Bernardo Arévalo; her name was confirmed on the MINECO website when it was re-checked in the 2026-08-19 audit. The underlying framework it works within is the Foreign Investment Act, Decree 9-98, which grants national treatment to the foreign investor. MINECO also runs the digital single windows for administrative procedures (business formalization, construction, exports, imports and foreign trade) and created Pro Guatemala in 2024.
The National Strategy for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment, launched by the Ministry of the Economy (MINECO), prioritizes eleven markets: the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom; the list was confirmed on the MINECO website during the 2026-08-19 audit. Within the strategy there is a sector initiative, Ruta del Chip (the Chip Route), aimed at semiconductors in cooperation with Taiwan, which held an implementation seminar organized by MINECO. The dossier records neither a launch date for the strategy nor any amounts attached to the Ruta del Chip.
- Mercados priorizados por la Estrategia Nacional de IED11
A reform of the PPP framework was indeed put through, meant to speed up the preparation, structuring and financing of projects; the Congressional Economy Committee issued a favorable opinion in January 2025. The dossier had recorded the reform as 'Decree 21-2025', approved on 25 November 2025 and published in December 2025, but the 2026-08-19 audit found that none of the cited sources supports that number or those dates (the Villalobos piece is from January 2025 and Prensa Libre covers only the committee opinion); they have to be checked against the official gazette. What the press did confirm (Prensa Libre, 20 July 2026) is the name ANI - National Infrastructure Agency, 'responsible for promoting projects under the public-private partnership scheme', with an open call for a new executive director.
The Public Special Economic Development Zones (ZDEEP) are extra-customs zones that ZOLIC is authorized to establish anywhere in the country under Decree 30-2008, which amends Act 22-73. The number was confirmed in the 2026-08-19 audit: ZOLIC cites it verbatim ('Decree 30-2008, which amends Act 22-73 of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala'); the label '30-2018' that appears on PRONACOM's ZDEEP fact sheet (a 2020 PDF) is a typo. PRONACOM publicizes the ZDEEP regime alongside the free zones (Decree 65-89) and the 29-89 regime.
AGEXPORT's 2026 work plan, presented together with its 2025 annual report, sets a strategic vision of US$35,000 million in exports by 2035, under the 'Way to Play' strategy. The 2035 horizon was confirmed in the 2026-08-19 audit against the same source (AGEXPORT Hoy). The dossier does not record the baseline export figure against which that target is measured.
- Meta de exportaciones de AGEXPORTUS$35,000 millones
A foreign investor deals with three layers. The public one: the Ministry of the Economy (MINECO) as the lead body for investment and trade policy, with PRONACOM (competitiveness and technical support for promotion), Pro Guatemala (the central government's FDI attraction agency, created in 2024), the Single Window for Investments, ANADIE for public-private partnerships and ZOLIC for the free zone and the ZDEEP zones. The private one: Invest Guatemala, a promotion agency driven by FUNDESA, AGEXPORT and CACIF under the 'Guatemala No Se Detiene' plan. The trade-association one: CACIF, the Chamber of Industry, the Chamber of Commerce, AGEXPORT, AmCham and 12 binational chambers grouped in ASCABI. The public/private duplication is real and deliberate: the Arévalo government created Pro Guatemala in 2024 alongside the private agency that already existed.
- Cámaras binacionales agrupadas en ASCABI12
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The dossier recorded an estimate of US$1,648.5 million in FDI tied to the strategy's pipeline and a potential of 10,776 direct and indirect jobs, attributed to the MINECO launch page. However, in the 2026-08-19 audit those two figures did not appear on the cited page when it was re-checked; that same page did confirm the priority markets and the minister's name. The figures remain to be reconfirmed: the originating MINECO release or document has to be located before they are used with an investor.
- IED asociada a la cartera de la Estrategia Nacional de IEDUS$1,648.5 millones
- Empleos directos e indirectos potenciales10,776
MINECO runs a range of digital single windows: the Single Window for Business Formalization, the Fast-Track Construction Window, the Single Window for Exports, the Fast-Track Import Window and the Single Window for Foreign Trade. The government's procedures portal is Asísehace.gt. For investors there is also the Single Window for Investments (VUI, investinguatemala.org), which is covered separately. The dossier records neither response times nor costs for each window.
The Foreign Investment Act is Decree 9-98 of the Congress of the Republic; its central principle is national treatment: the foreign investor receives the same treatment as a national one. It is the underlying framework within which MINECO and the promotion agencies operate. The dossier takes the reference from UNCTAD's Investment Policy Hub and does not detail articles, sector exceptions or dispute-settlement mechanisms; those belong to other dossiers of the atlas.
The National Competitiveness Program (PRONACOM) was created by Government Agreement 306-2004 and amended by Agreements 21-2008, 39-2016 and 192-2016. It is a participatory public-private-academic program focused on competitiveness, investment and formal employment, and it gives technical support to investment promotion. Its activities are governed by the National Competitiveness Policy 2018-2032, approved by Government Agreement 103-2018 of 11 June 2018. The name of PRONACOM's current director was not found in sources dated 2025-2026.
PRONACOM offers three free services: Investor Services (setup advice), Aftercare (post-investment support) and Investment Intelligence (strategic data and analysis of opportunities). It also publicizes the special investment regimes: free zones (Decree 65-89), the 29-89 regime and the ZDEEP zones. As an example of its work, an official release reported the confirmation of 6 investment and reinvestment projects with a potential of more than 1,355 jobs; the dossier does not fix the date of that release.
- Proyectos de inversión/reinversión confirmados por PRONACOM6
- Empleos potenciales asociados a esos proyectosmás de 1,355
Pro Guatemala is the National and Foreign Investment Attraction Agency, created by MINECO through Ministerial Agreement 295-2024 and announced at the hundred-day mark of the Arévalo government in 2024. Its purpose is to coordinate institutional FDI attraction efforts and to accompany the investor through the whole investment cycle. In 2025 it reported a pipeline of 31 interested foreign companies (a press figure). Sites: proguatemala.gob.gt and proguatemala.mineco.gob.gt; the latter did not resolve in DNS on 2026-08-19, so the current domain remains to be confirmed. The official text of Ministerial Agreement 295-2024 was not located in the official gazette (Diario de Centro América), and the name of its head was not identified.
- Empresas extranjeras interesadas en cartera de Pro Guatemala31
The VUI is a virtual one-stop tool for finding out what is required to set up in Guatemala; it was launched by President Giammattei and Minister Janio Rosales on 1 June at the Patio de la Paz of the National Palace. The AGN report omits the year; contemporaneous coverage (the simultaneous announcement of Yazaki's opening, Bloomberg Línea, 2022-06-02) dates the event to June 2022. The Investor Room was inaugurated alongside the VUI: a physical space in the National Palace of Culture for high-level meetings with investors. Its legal antecedent would be Government Agreement 532-92, a number still to be verified against the original text. The VUI's domain is investinguatemala.org; it is not to be confused with investguatemala.com, which belongs to the private agency Invest Guatemala.
- AGN — En qué consiste la Ventanilla Única para las Inversiones
- Liberal GT — inauguración de la VUI y anuncio de Yazaki
- Bloomberg Línea (2022-06-02) — primera fábrica automotriz invertirá US$160 millones
- Gobierno de Guatemala (prensa) — inauguración de la VUI y la Sala del Inversionista
- VUI/MINECO — investinguatemala.org
The framework is the Partnerships for the Development of Economic Infrastructure Act, Decree 16-2010. ANADIE is the executing agency, under the direction of the CONADIE council. The permanent executive director is appointed through a competitive selection process for a six-year term; in 2025 the acting executive director was Kevyn Valencia. After the 2025 reform the entity appears in the press as ANI (the National Infrastructure Agency), with an open call for a new executive director according to coverage of 20 July 2026; the permanent appointee remains to be confirmed.
- Período del director ejecutivo titular de ANADIE6 años
The historical record is poor: in 14 years under the law only one PPP has been approved, the Escuintla-Puerto Quetzal motorway. The historical priority pipeline also included the State Administrative Center, the Tecún Umán II Intermodal Port (~US$40 million, rail interconnection with Mexico), the modernization of La Aurora International Airport (~US$120 million in pre-investment studies), the Nor-Oriente Express Way and the Metro Riel, with a combined investment cited at ~US$1,500 million in a 2017 report. The current value of the ANADIE/ANI pipeline is not in the dossier; the proposal is to track it through the project sheets at anadie.gob.gt.
- APP aprobadas desde la ley de 20101 (autopista Escuintla–Puerto Quetzal)
- Puerto Intermodal Tecún Umán II~US$40 millones
- Modernización Aeropuerto La Aurora (estudios de preinversión)~US$120 millones
- Inversión conjunta de la cartera APP~US$1,500 millones
ZOLIC is a decentralized, semi-autonomous state entity created by Decree 22-73 (the ZOLIC Organic Act, 1973). It runs the Santo Tomás de Castilla Free Trade and Industry Zone, adjacent to the port of the same name in Izabal and operating since 1981. Under Decree 30-2008 it is also authorized to establish ZDEEP zones anywhere in the country. The name of the current general manager was not found in dated sources.
- Inicio de operaciones de la zona libre Santo Tomás de Castilla1981
The dossier recorded 23 ZDEEP zones in total: the first 5 operating, 10 authorized by ZOLIC and pending final clearance from the tax authority (SAT), and 8 in process, in departments such as Escuintla, San Marcos, Zacapa and Izabal (Puerto Barrios), with ~1,900 direct and indirect jobs in the first zones. The 2026-08-19 audit could not verify those figures: one of the ZOLIC URLs returns a 404 and the 'nuestras-zdeep' page no longer publishes counts or employment. The last verifiable data point is from Prensa Libre (3 May 2022): 10 projects and 2,570 jobs; the official figure should be requested from ZOLIC (annual report). The Michatoya Pacífico ZDEEP, at km 72 of the motorway to Puerto Quetzal, has the most users in the south of the country; its user rates are not public.
- ZDEEP totales según el dossier23 (5 operativas, 10 autorizadas pendientes de SAT, 8 en trámite)
- Empleos directos e indirectos en las primeras ZDEEP~1,900
- Proyectos ZDEEP y empleos (último dato verificable)10 proyectos / 2,570 empleos
According to material published by ZOLIC and by private tax advisers, the ZDEEP regime offers exemption from income tax (ISR) for up to 10 years depending on the activity, temporary suspension of import duties (DAI) and of import VAT, and exemption from stamp taxes. The dossier takes these claims from a private advisory firm (Concilia, 2025) and from the press (Bloomberg Línea, 2022), not from the legal text; they have to be verified against Decree 30-2008 and its regulations before any decision is based on them.
- Exención de ISR en ZDEEPhasta 10 años según actividad
Invest Guatemala is a private investment promotion agency that positions the country as an FDI destination; it offers free assistance: information on opportunities and sectors, regulatory facilitation, identification of local partners, site location and end-to-end support. Priority sectors: agro-industry, apparel and textiles, life sciences, the services industry, food and beverages, and manufacturing. Its executive director is Juan Esteban Sánchez, formerly of ProColombia, in post since 2023. It is a collaborative project involving MINECO/PRONACOM, the Ministry of Public Finance (MINFIN), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINEX), the central bank (Banguat), the Municipality of Guatemala, FUNDESA and AGEXPORT, born of the 'Guatemala No Se Detiene' agenda (planned in 2021, in execution since 2022); the exact year of its formal incorporation was not located. Address: 15 Av. 14-72 zona 13, Guatemala City; website investguatemala.com, distinct from investinguatemala.org (the public VUI).
AGEXPORT (the Guatemalan Exporters Association) is a private non-profit founded in 1982 to promote and develop exports; it covers agriculture, manufacturing, services, aquaculture and fisheries. Services: assistance to exporters, sector committees, an exporters directory and the AGEXPORT PLUS benefits program. President: Francisco Ralda, 2025-2027 term; vice-president Carlos Arias (Vestex). Contact: (502) 2422-3400 and the address servicioalciente@agexport.org.gt, transcribed exactly as it appears in the source.
CACIF (the Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial and Financial Associations) is the business umbrella body that brings together the chambers of the organized private sector. Its president for the 2026-2027 term is Carlos Arias Bouscayrol, nominated by the Guatemalan Chamber of Construction; he is also vice-president of AGEXPORT and president of Vestex. First vice-president: Francisco Ralda (president of AGEXPORT); second vice-president: Luis Fernando Leal. Along with FUNDESA and AGEXPORT, CACIF is one of the trade bodies behind the private agency Invest Guatemala.
The CIG is the industrial trade body and the Guatemalan chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Current agenda: fighting illicit trade, port and airport modernization, and foreign-trade facilitation. President: Carlos Enrique Font Eggleston; vice-president: Stephanie Melville Molina (board ratified for 2026-2027). It presented progress on its 2026-2030 Strategic Plan at the annual assembly in July 2026. Anchor event: the XXI Industrial Congress 2026, on 11 September at the Westin Camino Real.
The Chamber of Commerce of Guatemala (CCG) was incorporated with legal personality on 26 February 1894 to defend, represent and promote commerce; it has 35 departmental and municipal branches. Member services: civil and commercial legal advice, tax and labor guidance, events and preferential pricing. The dossier records neither membership fees nor the name of its current president.
- Filiales departamentales de la CCG35
AmCham (the Guatemalan-American Chamber of Commerce) approved its bylaws on 23 May 1967 and was the first AmCham founded in Central America; it has more than 500 members, 16 of them in the Leadership Circle program. Services: networking and business facilitation, government relations, sector committees, commercial information, a job board and publications; corporate, individual and international memberships (the last for companies with no physical office in Guatemala). Leadership in 2026: president Rodolfo Sáenz (United Airlines) and executive director Waleska Sterkel de Ortiz. In July 2026 AmCham circulated a projection of 4% economic growth by 2027, with a warning about the pre-election year.
- Socios de AmCham Guatemalamás de 500 (16 en Leadership Circle)
- Proyección de crecimiento económico difundida por AmCham4%
ASCABI (the Association of Binational Chambers of Commerce) is a private non-profit that brings together 12 binational chambers - the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China - and represents more than 1,000 companies. According to ASCABI, in 2023 the countries it represents took 43% of Guatemalan exports and supplied 46% of the FDI received that year (~US$568 million); the figure is still to be checked against the central bank (Banguat). Chambers with their own web presence: CAMACOES (the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce, which has chaired ASCABI), CanCham (the Guatemalan-Canadian Chamber of Commerce), CCI France-Guatemala and the Chinese Chamber of Guatemala.
- Cámaras binacionales agrupadas en ASCABI12
- Empresas representadas por ASCABImás de 1,000
- Participación de los países ASCABI en exportaciones guatemaltecas43%
- Participación de los países ASCABI en la IED recibida46% (~US$568 millones)
FUNDESA (the Foundation for the Development of Guatemala) is the private technical secretariat of the 'Guatemala No Se Detiene' agenda (economic commission) and organizes ENADE, the national meeting of business leaders. It publishes the 'Investor welcome pack', a country guide in PDF, and the Local Competitiveness Index (ICL) of municipal rankings. At ENADE 2025 it reported that Guatemala attracted US$867.5 million of FDI in the first half of 2025, a figure taken from the press (Prensa Libre) that is worth checking against Banguat. FUNDESA sits alongside AGEXPORT and CACIF in the governance of Invest Guatemala.
- IED captada por Guatemala (dato difundido en ENADE 2025)US$867.5 millones
'Guatemala No Se Detiene' (GNSD, 'Guatemala Does Not Stop') is the national nearshoring strategy. It began as a proposal drawn up with McKinsey & Company and presented by the Giammattei government in October 2020, under the slogan 'Vamos por empleo, inversión y prosperidad'. It is a public-private alliance: MINECO/PRONACOM with FUNDESA, CACIF, AGEXPORT, Banguat and the Municipality of Guatemala, in execution since 2022; its promotion vehicle is the private agency Invest Guatemala. Method: 25 productive clusters identified, 11 prioritized for promotion programs; leading sectors: light manufacturing, call centers/BPO, pharmaceuticals and food, with technical training for young people. Pillars: investment attraction, competitiveness/business climate and legal certainty, infrastructure, human capital and tourism. McKinsey opened operations in Guatemala in the context of the plan.
- Clústeres productivos identificados por GNSD25
- Clústeres priorizados para promoción11
- La Hora (2020-10-22) — gobierno presenta propuesta de McKinsey
- República (2021-04-18) — el nuevo plan Guatemala No Se Detiene
- PRONACOM — Invest in Guatemala
- FUNDESA — comisión económica, Guatemala No Se Detiene
- Revista DataExport (2021-08) — la fuerza que generará inversión extranjera
- Guatemala No Se Detiene
- BID/WiConnect — Invest Guatemala
- Soy502 — McKinsey inicia operaciones en Guatemala
Long-term targets: 2.5 million quality jobs, doubling exports and reaching GDP per capita of US$14,500 by 2032; some reports cite 2030 as the horizon for the jobs, a discrepancy the dossier leaves unresolved. Interim targets set for 2024: +US$1,200 million in exports, gross fixed capital formation at or above 14.5% of GDP, engineering works at 2.7% of GDP, US$1,378 million of FDI and 63,000 new formal jobs. The dossier does not record how far the 2024 targets were met; it proposes tracking that through the progress reports at guatemalanosedetiene.gt and, as a proxy for formal employment, the IGSS affiliation bulletins.
- Empleos de calidad (meta de largo plazo GNSD)2.5 millones
- PIB per cápita (meta de largo plazo GNSD)US$14,500
- Exportaciones adicionales (meta intermedia)+US$1,200 millones
- Formación bruta de capital fijo (meta intermedia)≥14.5% del PIB
- Obras de ingeniería (meta intermedia)2.7% del PIB
- IED (meta intermedia)US$1,378 millones
- Empleos formales nuevos (meta intermedia)63,000
Synergy Industrial Park is a private industrial park at km 53 of the Pacific motorway, in Escuintla, developed by Spectrum (the real-estate arm) and Grupo Pantaleon. Initial investment: more than US$20 million. Area: coverage cites 715 acres and also '500 hectares', figures that are mutually inconsistent (715 acres is roughly 289 ha) and are to be confirmed with the developer. It was inaugurated in April 2024 and, a year after launch, reported more than 1,400 jobs created. Web: synergy.com.gt and synergyindustrialpark.com.gt (the Invest Guatemala directory points to the latter).
- Inversión inicial de Synergy Industrial Parkmás de US$20 millones
- Superficie reportada715 acres (≈289 ha); otra nota cita 500 ha
- Empleos generadosmás de 1,400
On offer: class A multi-tenant warehouses for rent, land for sale and build-to-suit development. According to the developer, it has a 69 kV electrical substation with redundancy and capacity of up to 60 MW, and connections to the CA-9, RN-14, CA-1 and CA-2 routes. It offers tenants three regime options: ZDEEP zones, the 29-89 regime (maquila/export) and areas with no special regime; the campus is advertised as LEED-certified. All of these are promotional claims by the developer or by the Invest Guatemala directory, pending verification. Rents per m² and other rates are not public; contact is through synergy.com.gt.
- Subestación eléctrica de Synergy69 kV con redundancia, capacidad hasta 60 MW
No. The only thing traceable under that name is ASA PROMOTIONS & PR, SOCIEDAD ANÓNIMA (tax ID 77659740), an advertising and events company incorporated on 25 November 2011, also known as TICKET ASA; there is also ASA PRO, S.A. (tax ID 106264699), apparently related. No evidence was found that 'ASA Promotions' or 'ASA Promociones' plays any role in investment promotion, industrial parks or industrial site selection in Guatemala (searches: 'ASA Promotions Guatemala', 'ASA Promociones Guatemala inversión industrial'); the likeliest explanation is confusion with another entity. The closest real analogues are Synergy Industrial Park/Spectrum, the ZDEEP zones authorized by ZOLIC (Michatoya Pacífico, for example) and the free-zone network under Decree 65-89. It is advisable to ask for the exact context - document, card or email - in which the name appeared.
The Municipality of Guatemala runs a Single Window for subdivision, works and use licenses, located in the Municipal Palace, Centro Cívico, zona 1, with stated hours of Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:00, and meant to give 'speed in the approval of projects and certainty to investors'; the capital's municipality also takes part in the governance of Invest Guatemala. The Municipality of Villa Nueva has a Municipal Single Window for business procedures. No formal municipal investment-attraction office was identified outside the capital (Quetzaltenango, Escuintla and so on). The dossier records neither timelines nor fees for the licenses.
Laws: Decree 9-98, the Foreign Investment Act (national treatment); Decree 29-89, the Export and Maquila Activity Promotion and Development Act; Decree 65-89, the Free Zones Act; Decree 22-73, the ZOLIC Organic Act; Decree 30-2008, which authorizes the ZDEEP zones (number confirmed in the audit; the '30-2018' label on the PRONACOM fact sheet is a typo); Decree 16-2010, the Partnerships for the Development of Economic Infrastructure Act; and a reform of the PPP framework put through in 2025 whose number ('21-2025') and dates remain unconfirmed. Agreements: Government Agreement 306-2004 (with amendments 21-2008, 39-2016 and 192-2016) creates and amends PRONACOM; Government Agreement 103-2018 approves the National Competitiveness Policy 2018-2032; Ministerial Agreement 295-2024 creates Pro Guatemala; and Government Agreement 532-92 is the antecedent of MINECO's investment single window (number to be verified).
- UNCTAD Investment Policy Hub — Decreto 9-98
- Vestex — Decreto 29-89 y Decreto 22-73
- MINECO — texto del Decreto 65-89, Ley de Zonas Francas (PDF)
- ZOLIC — Nuestras ZDEEP (Decreto 30-2008)
- PRONACOM — ficha ZDEEP (PDF)
- ANADIE — texto de la Ley de Alianzas (Decreto 16-2010)
- Federico Villalobos (2025-01-26) — reformas para atraer inversión en infraestructura
- PRONACOM — Sobre PRONACOM (AG 306-2004, AG 103-2018)
- Prensa Libre — MINECO crea agencia de atracción de inversiones (AM 295-2024)
- VUI/MINECO — investinguatemala.org (AG 532-92)
The dossier leaves fifteen open items and one resolved (the ZDEEP decree number, confirmed as 30-2008). Still open: the role of 'ASA Promotions' (only a same-named events company exists); the official text of Ministerial Agreement 295-2024 creating Pro Guatemala; the exact year Invest Guatemala was incorporated; the names of PRONACOM's director and of Pro Guatemala's head; the permanent head of ANADIE/ANI after the reform; the number and the dates of the 2025 PPP reform ('Decree 21-2025'); the 2030 vs 2032 horizon for the GNSD targets; ZOLIC's general manager; Synergy's prices and the ZDEEP rates (private); municipal investment-attraction offices outside the capital; the year the VUI was launched, in a primary source; Synergy's exact area (715 acres vs 500 ha); the ASCABI figure of 46% of 2023 FDI, against Banguat; the National FDI Strategy figures (US$1,648.5 M and 10,776 jobs); and the current ZDEEP count and its jobs (last verifiable: 10 projects and 2,570 jobs, May 2022).
The dossier proposes nine series, all annual unless stated otherwise: fdi_projects_confirmed_count (projects confirmed by PRONACOM/Pro Guatemala, via proguatemala.gob.gt and releases on prensa.gob.gt, no API); app_pipeline_value_usd (value of the ANADIE/ANI PPP pipeline, project sheets on anadie.gob.gt); zdeep_zones_operational (ZDEEP zones operating/authorized/in process, zolicguate.com); zdeep_direct_jobs (ZDEEP employment, ZOLIC annual reports and budget data on minfin.gob.gt); igss_formal_workers (contributing IGSS members as a proxy for the GNSD formal-employment target, statistical bulletin); gnsd_target_tracking (GNSD targets vs execution, progress reports at guatemalanosedetiene.gt); construction_licenses_muniguate (m² authorized and licenses in Guatemala City, vu.muniguate.com, data to be requested); icl_competitiveness_index (FUNDESA's Local Competitiveness Index, biennial or annual depending on the edition); and free_zone_users_count (active users in 65-89 free zones and the 29-89 regime, MINECO's Directorate of Trade Services). None has a known API.
This layer is research: read from public sources by the archive's own team, every claim cited with the date it was consulted, and audited where it is marked so. It has not entered the verified store — no figure here was fetched back from its source or stamped with a retrieval time — so it wears no red provenance numeral and never mixes with the verified figures.
Public agencies, chambers and trade bodies
176 organizations
Ministerio de Economía (MINECO)
- Lead authority for investment and trade policy; it qualifies applicants under the 29-89 and free-zone regimes, administers the free trade agreements (DACE) and runs digital one-stop windows for business formalization, construction, export and import.
PRONACOM — Programa Nacional de Competitividad
- Free Investor Services, Aftercare and Investment Intelligence; it disseminates the special investment regimes and runs the catalog of administrative procedures (vuc.pronacom.org).
Pro Guatemala — Agencia de Atracción de Inversión Nacional y Extranjera
- Investor support across the whole investment cycle; it coordinates the institutional effort to attract FDI (created by Ministerial Agreement 295-2024 under the Arévalo government).
Ventanilla Única para las Inversiones (VUI) y Sala del Inversionista
- A single virtual point of contact for the requirements of setting up in Guatemala, with a physical high-level meeting space in the National Palace.
ANADIE — Agencia Nacional de Alianzas para el Desarrollo de Infraestructura Económica
- Structures and awards infrastructure public-private partnerships under Decree 16-2010 (pipeline: La Aurora airport, Tecún Umán II, Vía Exprés, Metro Riel).
CONADIE — Consejo Nacional de Alianzas para el Desarrollo de Infraestructura Económica
- Governing council of the public-private partnership system; it directs ANADIE/ANI and convenes the appointment of its executive director.
ANI — Agencia Nacional de Infraestructura
- Charged with promoting projects under the public-private partnership scheme following the 2025 reform of the PPP framework.
ZOLIC — Zona Libre de Industria y Comercio Santo Tomás de Castilla
- Decentralized state entity (Decree 22-73) that operates the free zone adjoining Santo Tomás port and authorizes Public Special Economic Development Zones (ZDEEP) nationwide (Decree 30-2008).
Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas (MINFIN)
- Fiscal and public-debt authority; it publishes fiscal reports and sovereign-rating statements and takes part in the governance of Invest Guatemala.
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MINEX)
- Takes part in the governance of the collaborative Invest Guatemala project.
Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social (MINTRAB)
- Issues work permits for foreign staff (PEX): Q3,000 for a new permit, Q2,000 for a renewal, 100% online with a maximum term of 20 business days.
Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN)
- Approves environmental instruments (categories A, B1, B2, C) and issues the environmental license that allows a project to proceed; filing is electronic through SAGA.
Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA)
- Agricultural and phytosanitary authority; the official source for cardamom data and agricultural prices.
Ministerio de Educación (MINEDUC)
- Publishes the Statistical Yearbook (enrollment, promotion and graduates by level and department) and co-runs the English scholarships of the Guatemala No Se Detiene plan.
Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM)
- Lead authority for energy and mining policy; it registers Large Electricity Users, accredits renewable projects (Decree 52-2003) and grants mining licenses (Decree 48-97, total royalty 1%).
Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y Vivienda (CIV)
- Runs the three state ports and the road network; a pipeline of 143 road projects and international tenders such as the widening of the CA-9 Norte.
DIPP — Dirección de Proyectos Viales Prioritarios (CIV)
- Special road-contracting regime created by Decree 29-2024 for the prioritized strategic routes (CA-10, CA-11, CA-12 and others).
Dirección General de Caminos (CIV)
- Official register of the country's road network.
INE — Instituto Nacional de Estadística
- Official statistics: the ENEIC employment survey, the consumer price index (IPC), the construction materials price index (IPMC) and population projections.
IGSS — Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social
- Compulsory social security scheme: employer registration and contributions (employer 10.67% within the 12.67% total; employee 4.83%); statistical bulletins on affiliation.
INTECAP — Instituto Técnico de Capacitación y Productividad
- Technical training for the workforce (78 long courses, 400+ short programs, 28 centers), funded by the 1% employer payroll levy; it trains for anchor investments such as Yazaki.
IGM — Instituto Guatemalteco de Migración
- Temporary residence (investor, with a minimum investment of US$100,000; fees US$200/300/500) and permanent residence (rentista, with income ≥US$1,250/month, US$400 one-off).
RENAP — Registro Nacional de las Personas
- Issues the DPI identity document for domiciled foreigners, the compulsory final step after obtaining residence.
Registro Mercantil de Guatemala
- Registration of companies and commercial enterprises: online from ~US$26-29 and 2-6 business days (eportal.registromercantil.gob.gt); foreign companies not incorporated locally cannot yet use the online route.
RPI — Registro de la Propiedad Intelectual
- Registration of trademarks, patents, utility models, industrial designs and copyright (Decrees 57-2000 and 33-98), attached to the Ministry of the Economy (MINECO).
INGUAT — Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo
- Tourism promotion and official statistics on visitors and foreign-exchange earnings; it seeks to attract hotel investment.
CPN — Comisión Portuaria Nacional
- Official statistics for the port system (the Port Statistical Report: TEU, cargo, calls by port).
DGAC — Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil
- Aviation authority; it runs La Aurora and Mundo Maya, publishes passenger and cargo statistics and executes the Plan Conecta modernization.
FEGUA — Ferrocarriles de Guatemala
- Autonomous state entity (Decree 22-69) charged with promoting the revival of the railway and safeguarding railway assets; the network runs no regular freight service.
INDE — Instituto Nacional de Electrificación
- State electricity company: transmission through ETCEE (secondary-system wheeling charge set by CNEE) and a contribution/subsidy for users of ≤100 kWh/month.
Municipalidad de Guatemala — Ventanilla Única (Dirección de Control Territorial)
- Subdivision, construction and land-use licenses under the POT zoning plan, with a POT map, web case files and online payment; takes part in the governance of Invest Guatemala.
Municipalidad de Villa Nueva — Ventanilla Única Municipal
- Municipal one-stop window for business procedures.
VAC — Ventanilla Ágil de Construcción
- Digital platform that unifies the requirements and procedures of nine executive-branch institutions preceding the municipal building license.
- Criminal investigating body; relevant to governance risk (the TCQ case) and to extortion statistics; its 2018-2026 attorney general was sanctioned by the United States and the EU.
Invest Guatemala — Agencia Privada de Promoción de Inversiones
- Free assistance: information on opportunities, regulatory facilitation, identification of local partners, site location and end-to-end support; directory of industrial parks.
FUNDESA — Fundación para el Desarrollo de Guatemala
- Private technical secretariat of Guatemala No Se Detiene; it publishes the Investor Welcome Package and the Local Competitiveness Index and organizes ENADE.
AGEXPORT — Asociación Guatemalteca de Exportadores
- Exporter assistance, sectoral commissions (including Contact Center & BPO and Vestex), an exporters' directory and the operation of VUPE; a target of US$35,000 million exported by 2035.
VUPE — Ventanilla Única para las Exportaciones
- Electronic issuance of export documents 24/7 (DUCA F, DEPREX, DUCA D) through SEADEX Web; it coordinates 12 institutions; a function delegated by the Ministry of the Economy (MINECO) to AGEXPORT since 1998.
CACIF — Comité Coordinador de Asociaciones Agrícolas, Comerciales, Industriales y Financieras
- Apex body of the organized private sector; the trade-association interlocutor on policies such as the Water Law and co-promoter of the Guatemala No Se Detiene plan.
CIG — Cámara de Industria de Guatemala
- Industry association and Guatemalan chapter of the ICC; a trade-facilitation and port-modernization agenda; industrial directory and annual Industrial Congress.
CCG — Cámara de Comercio de Guatemala
- Legal advice, tax and labor guidance, and a network of 35 departmental branches; founded in 1894.
AmCham — Cámara de Comercio Guatemalteco-Americana
- Networking and business facilitation with the United States, government relations, sectoral committees, commercial information and a job board; more than 500 members.
ASCABI — Asociación de Cámaras de Comercio Binacionales
- Groups 12 binational chambers (United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China) representing more than 1,000 companies.
CAMACOES — Cámara Oficial Española de Comercio en Guatemala
- Spain-Guatemala binational chamber; it has chaired ASCABI.
CanCham — Cámara de Comercio Guatemalteco-Canadiense
- Canada-Guatemala binational chamber, a member of ASCABI.
CCI France-Guatemala — Cámara Guatemalteca Francesa
- France-Guatemala binational chamber, a member of ASCABI.
- China-Guatemala binational chamber, a member of ASCABI.
VESTEX — Comisión de la Industria de Vestuario y Textiles (AGEXPORT)
- Trade association of the full-package apparel and textile cluster (275 companies, >150,000 jobs, US$1,891 million exported in 2025 according to AGEXPORT).
Anacafé — Asociación Nacional del Café
- Coffee trade association: official harvest and export data (US$1,285 million and 3.73 million quintals of green coffee in 2024-2025; 125,000 producer families).
Asazgua — Asociación de Azucareros de Guatemala
- Groups the 10 sugar mills (2024-2025 harvest: 2.54 million tonnes; ~60% exported to ~60 countries) with the cluster's own infrastructure.
Grepalma — Gremial de Palmicultores de Guatemala
- Palm oil trade association (180,614 ha in 2023; 878,000 t exported in 2023, with the Netherlands as the main destination).
CGC — Cámara Guatemalteca de la Construcción
- Construction-sector trade association since 1971; it publishes periodic reports on materials and labor costs.
Gremial de Bodegas de Guatemala
- Groups the operators of industrial warehouses (e.g. Grupo Rosul) and organizes Expo Bodega.
Organismo Judicial (OJ) — Centro de Análisis y Documentación Judicial
- Publishes the text of Decree 19-2016, which restricted the 29-89 regime to apparel and textiles and to ICT/call centers
Comisión Portuaria Nacional (CPN)
- A source of port data cited by cross-reference to dossier 06
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- The official source of the yarn-forward rule ('only apparel using yarn and fabric from the United States, Central America and the Dominican Republic qualifies for duty-free benefits') and of the Short Supply List process (Annex 3.25)
OTEXA — Office of Textiles and Apparel (U.S. Dept. of Commerce / trade.gov)
- A monthly dataset of US apparel imports by country (a mirror for triangulating VESTEX's trade-association figures) and of Guatemala's position among suppliers
U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC)
- The alternative source proposed for the % of apparel exports that qualify as yarn-forward
EMPAGUA (Empresa Municipal de Agua de la Ciudad de Guatemala)
- Metered piped water in the capital (fixed charge of Q42.56 a month plus a banded volumetric tariff, in force from 1 December 2025); it manages around 4.0 m³/s against demand of around 6 m³/s; it assesses projects with pumping and level tests (Project Assessment Unit); it publishes the Water Security Strategy
Mancomunidad Gran Ciudad del Sur (MGCS)
- Co-author with EMPAGUA of the Water Security Strategy; its municipalities depend on 6 springs and 163 municipal wells (around 1.86 m³/s); the MGCS total is around 7.55-7.94 m³/s including around 1.55 m³/s from private wells
Municipalidad de Guatemala (Concejo Municipal / Ventanilla Única)
- The municipal license and fee for drilling a mechanical well (Municipal Agreement 11-05-1995) through the one-stop window; it issues the Public Water Service Regulation COM-56-2023 (published 21 December 2023), which sets EMPAGUA's categories and tariffs
Municipalidad de San José Pinula
- A fee for the well-drilling license (Minutes 33-94.3)
Municipalidad de San Lucas Sacatepéquez
- A fee for the well-drilling license (Minutes 019-94)
Congreso de la República (Comisión de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales)
- Handles Bill 6816 (the Water Act, 215 articles): filed 3 August 2026, taken up by the plenary on 11 August 2026, sent to the Environment Committee; the source for the agua.ley_6816_estado indicator
PDH (Procurador de los Derechos Humanos)
- Precedent: in 2018 it accused Grupo HAME of opening channels that diverted the waters of the Madre Vieja river; in 2019 a similar accusation on the Suchiate river
- A public reference for state works budgets: the SNIP file for the construction and equipping of a well
- Rainfall series by station, IDF curves by region and climate bulletins (the agua.precipitacion_region indicator); co-author of the national water balance (97,120 Mm³ a year)
PLAMAR
- Co-author with INSIVUMEH of the national water availability balance (around 97,120 Mm³ a year) set out in the National Policy on Integrated Water Resources Management (GIRH)
Registro General de la Propiedad (RGP)
- Real-folio registry (finca, folio, libro): registry certification for due diligence (Q50 for up to 10 pages + Q5 per page, Governmental Agreement 325-2005, item 2.8) and registration of sales (Q160 minimum + Q1.50 per thousand on the excess over Q10,000, item 2.1); electronic search and QR verification of certificates at consulta.rgp.org.gt; RGP Virtual portal for certifications
Segundo Registro de la Propiedad (SRP)
- Property registry for the west of the country; certifications online at consulta.srp.gob.gt
Registro de Información Catastral (RIC)
- Cadastral authority (Decree 41-2005): cadastral report where a surveyed zone exists, and administrative declaration of communal lands (art. 65) under its Specific Regulation on Communal Lands; check that the plot is not under a declaration or a communal-recognition process
OCRET (Oficina de Control de las Áreas de Reserva Territoriales del Estado)
- Administrative leasing of the Art. 122 reserves (3 km of coastline, 200 m around lakes, 100 m along navigable rivers) under Decree 126-97: up to 30 years, renewable, rent payable annually in advance (or a minimum 20% advance), renewal to be requested 6 months beforehand, and legal entities incorporated in Guatemala (art. 5); on the coast, housing and recreation up to 2,000 m² with 80 m of frontage; the practical route for beach developments (Monterrico, the Pacific) and lake shores
Comisión Presidencial de Atención a la Conflictividad (COPRECON)
- Temporary commission (Governmental Agreement 100-2025, published 4 June 2025, four years) chaired by the President with the ministries of the Interior (Gobernación), Public Finance, Agriculture (MAGA), Environment (MARN) and Energy and Mines (MEM) for the peaceful settlement of social conflict; eight regional offices in Petén, Huehuetenango, Quiché, Alta and Baja Verapaz, Izabal and Quetzaltenango; a source on agrarian-conflict history for rural due diligence (an inherited caseload of more than 600 files)
Secretaría de Asuntos Agrarios (SAA)
- Body that recorded and mediated land conflicts; its archive is the historical reference for agrarian conflict
Secretaría de la Paz (SEPAZ)
- Peace institution whose closure was announced on 1 April 2020 together with that of the SAA
- Decentralized institution (Decree 24-99, Peace Accords) that administers access to land through credit and subsidy and the regularization of land awarded by the State (Decrees 1551, 60-70 and 38-71); the counterpart for checking rescission conditions or bans on transfer in estates of State origin
DICABI
- Receives the notarial notices filed after a sale; its recorded value is one of the bases (together with the RGP and the municipality) for capital gains tax
Ministerio de Gobernación
- Sits on COPRECON (Governmental Agreement 100-2025)
Organismo Ejecutivo (Presidencia de la República)
- Grants the authorization foreigners need to acquire urban property, or property with rights registered before 1 March 1956, inside the Art. 122 reserves; the President chairs COPRECON
- Institutional analysis of progress on the national cadastre (PDF, February 2026)
Municipalidad de Santa Eulalia
- Its freedom-of-information portal hosts the consolidated text of Decree 49-79 (the Supplementary Titling Law) checked in the audit
Gobernación Departamental de Chimaltenango
- Hosts the text of Decree 24-99 (the Land Fund Law)
Departamento de Estado de EE. UU.
- Investment Climate Statement (ICS) 2024 and 2025 for Guatemala: summarizes that the Foreign Investment Law gives foreigners the same property rights, the prohibition on the strips along rivers, oceans and borders, and the risk of defective title and registry gaps in rural areas
Cámara del Agro
- Commissioned from CABI the study that estimated the 2018 land invasions took 0.6% off national output
Registro de Garantías Mobiliarias (RGM)
- Public registry (attached to the Ministry of the Economy, MINECO) where security interests over inventory, receivables, machinery and future harvests are recorded under Decree 51-2007 (amended by Decree 4-2018), with priority by order of registration; standard forms on paper or electronic (§4).
Registro General de la Propiedad
- Registration of the mortgage over real property, which remains the collateral of choice in corporate banking (§4).
DFC (U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, ex OPIC)
- A US$300 M loan to BI approved on 15 January 2025 (on-lending to MSMEs; total cost US$375 M) after up to US$200 M in 2020; public OPIC summary of BI's DPR of up to US$250 M over 12 years (§8, §9).
US EXIM (Export-Import Bank of the United States)
- Final commitment of >US$11.3 M (29 July 2024) for two PAGSA nitrogen plants under the CTEP program (§8).
Proparco
- Co-investor of US$50 M in the BAC + Positivo sustainable bond (February 2025) (§7, §8).
JICA (Agencia de Cooperación Internacional del Japón)
- US$150 M within the US$415 M package for Banco Industrial with the IFC and FinDev Canada (22 September 2025) for green building, climate-smart agriculture, housing and women-led SMEs (§8).
FinDev Canada
- US$75 M within the US$415 M package for Banco Industrial with the IFC and JICA (22 September 2025) (§8).
KEXIM (Export-Import Bank of Korea)
- No country transaction identified; only global textile supply-chain programs (purchase of receivables from Gap's Korean suppliers of up to US$30 M) (§Not found 6).
Cámara de Comercio Guatemalteco-Canadiense (CanCham)
- A guide to movable-property security in Guatemala and to how the Movable Guarantees Registry works (§4).
Dirección de Política Industrial (MINECO)
- Receives the 29-89 qualification application together with its technical and economic report and issues an opinion within a maximum of 30 days (arts. 20-21); a company may operate before the resolution by guaranteeing the taxes (art. 24).
U.S. International Trade Administration (trade.gov)
- Country Commercial Guide for Guatemala: import duty (DAI) of 0-15% with exceptions up to 40%, an average applied rate of ~2.4%, and CAFTA-DR with ~5,263 of 6,307 US codes duty-free and full phase-out in 2026.
Corporación de Agentes Aduaneros de Guatemala (CAAG)
- The customs brokers' trade body; FAQs on the requirement to link a broker in order to file a DUCA; source for the register of active brokers (still to be obtained).
VUPE / AGEXPORT
- SEADEX Web issues electronic DUCA-F and DUCA-D declarations 24/7.
CONACON (Comisión Nacional para la Prevención y Combate de la Defraudación Aduanera y el Contrabando)
- Estimates losses to smuggling of no less than US$1,600 million a year (a statement by its executive secretary, Manuel Chocano).
Cámara de Industria de Guatemala (CIG)
- With CODECOF and CABI it estimates a tax gap from smuggling of Q1,400 million a year and Q25,000 million (US$3,230 million) in economic losses, and identifies the hardest-hit sectors: food and beverages, grains, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals, poultry and cement (Revista Industria & Negocios, April 2022).
Ministerio de Finanzas Públicas (MFP)
- Rules within 90 days on duty-free replacement of goods under the 29-89 regime (art. 31).
- A physical Municipal One-Stop Window (first level of the municipal building, plus the Mini Munis) and an Electronic Municipal Window; its Urban Management department publishes regulations, forms and building-permit requirements online by type (residential, commercial/industrial, subdivisions, earthworks, billboards, poles/cabling); property tax (IUSI) enquiries and cadastral certificates are handled even by WhatsApp; it runs its own municipal transit police (PMT) with online enquiries; it reports 282 industrial plants; 5th in the country on the 2025 Local Competitiveness Index (ICL) (72.21)
- Building permit: conforming land use, a municipal clearance certificate and property tax (IUSI) paid up to date, with plans signed by a licensed professional; the Construction and Urban Planning Regulation was amended by Council Minute 111-2018; the municipality publishes its Cadastre/IUSI Standards and Procedures Manual (2023); 4th in the country on the 2025 Local Competitiveness Index (ICL) (74.41)
- An online business directory; it documents the 'industrial boom and development' of Amatitlán
- The departmental source on Cobán's economy: coffee and cardamom (Alta Verapaz is the country's leading producer), regional trade and tourism
- The Construction One-Stop Window (physical, at the Municipal Palace, plus the vu.muniguate.com portal): enquiries, requirements, feasibility checks and forms online; ~10 institutions take part in a single permit; a quoted timeline of 30-60 working days; a construction regulation amended to revive economic activity; 1st in the country on the 2025 Local Competitiveness Index (ICL) (80.82)
Municipalidad de Quetzaltenango
- Building permit: a heavy multi-institutional process; a 'fast-track window' is reported only for small projects
- Publishes a copy of the text of Decree 15-98 (the Property Tax Act) used to cross-check arts. 2 and 11
INFOM
- The likely source, together with the PDM-OTs, for municipal water-supply capacity (flow, coverage, industrial tariff) in Escuintla, Puerto Barrios, Quetzaltenango and Cobán
CPN (Comisión Portuaria Nacional, Guatemala)
- Guatemala's port statistics: 1,119,626 TEU across the system in 2025; proposed source for benchmark_port_teu_GTM
JAPDEVA
- Costa Rica's port authority; the verification source for Moín's TEU figures and, with APM, the proposed source for benchmark_port_teu_CRI
ENP (Empresa Nacional Portuaria, Honduras)
- Honduras's port authority; the official source still outstanding for Puerto Cortés TEU for 2023-2025; proposed, with OPC, for benchmark_port_teu_HND
Autoridad Portuaria (República Dominicana)
- Proposed source for benchmark_port_teu_DOM
INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Guatemala)
- ENEIC: Guatemala's economically active population (PEA) of 8.2 million — the series to use for Guatemala on its own (not comparable with the WDI series of 7.5 million)
Mintrab (Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social, Guatemala)
- The 2026 minimum wage (Governmental Agreement 256-2025, in force from 1 January 2026, a 4% rise for the export sector): Q3,409.73 for export and maquila activity (CE1 and CE2) plus the Q250 bonus = Q3,659.73 (≈US$475); non-agricultural Q4,002.28 in CE1 and Q3,816.90 in CE2; proposed source for benchmark_min_wage_maquila_GTM
MINECO (Ministerio de Economía, Guatemala) — Viceministerio de Inversión y Competencia
- The text of Decree 65-89, the Free Zones Law (as amended by 6-2021): 10 years for users and 15 for zone operators, industrial and service users, with no purely commercial category
PNC (Policía Nacional Civil, Guatemala)
- Co-source (PNC/CIEN) of Guatemala's homicide rate of 17.3 in 2025 as reported by Latinometrics
MTSS (Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, Costa Rica)
- The 2026 minimum wage (Decree 45303-MTSS, in force from 1 January 2026, +1.63%): ₡373,092.30 for a generic unskilled worker (≈US$734); Costa Rica has no separate maquila category; proposed source for benchmark_min_wage_maquila_CRI
COMEX (Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, Costa Rica)
- The text of Free Zones Law 7210 (processing companies inside the GAMA: 6% for 8 years plus 15% for 4; outside it: 0% for 6, 5% for 6 and 15% for 6; other categories 100%/8 plus 50%/4, or 100%/12 plus 50%/6) and press release CP-3050 on the OECD certificate awarded to La Lima and Coyol
Ministerio de Hacienda (Costa Rica)
- The release on Moody's upgrade to Ba2 from Ba3 (24 September 2025, outlook moved from positive to stable)
CCSS (Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social)
- Costa Rica's employer contributions of ~26% — the reference for the regional total-labor-cost row
OIJ (Organismo de Investigación Judicial, Costa Rica)
- The source for Costa Rica's homicide rate of 16.3 in 2025, up 43% since 2021 (via Latinometrics)
MTPS (Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social, El Salvador)
- Minimum wage for textile and apparel maquila: up 12% from US$359.16 to US$402.32 (Executive Decree published 23 May 2025, in force from 1 June 2025); no new adjustment reported as of March 2026
Ministerio de Hacienda (El Salvador)
- Publishes Executive Decree No. 4 on the minimum wage for textile and apparel maquila on its transparency portal; proposed source (MH SV) for benchmark_min_wage_maquila_SLV
UIF (Unidad de Investigación Financiera, El Salvador)
- Hosts the text of the International Services Act (D.431): a broad catalog of international services (BPO, logistics, repair) carrying incentives
PNC (Policía Nacional Civil, El Salvador)
- The source (with the Mesa Tripartita) for El Salvador's homicide rate of 1.3 in 2025, an all-time low (via Latinometrics)
STSS (Secretaría de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, Honduras)
- The 2026 maquila minimum wage: L12,930.07 (≈US$494), an 8% annual rise agreed in the three-year 2024-2026 negotiation (STSS Agreement 109-2024, La Gaceta 21 March 2024); proposed source for benchmark_min_wage_maquila_HND
AHM (Asociación Hondureña de Maquiladores)
- Data on Honduras's free-zone regime (Apr-2024): ~39 zones, ~500 companies, ~150,000 jobs; a possible source for wages actually paid in maquila plants
SEPOL (Honduras)
- Source for Honduras's homicide rate of 21.2 in 2025, −10.3% against 2024 (via Latinometrics)
MITRAB (Ministerio del Trabajo, Nicaragua)
- Minimum wage under the special free-zone regime for 2026: C$9,986.54 (≈US$273), +6.7%, in force from 1-Jan-2026 (tripartite free-zone agreement); all other sectors +4% backdated to 1-Mar-2026; proposed source for benchmark_min_wage_maquila_NIC
Ministerio de Trabajo (República Dominicana) — Comité Nacional de Salarios (CNS)
- Resolution CNS-03-2025 (28-Apr-2025, countersigned 30-Apr-2025): single free-zone rate of RD$18,781.00 (1-Jun-2025 to 31-May-2026) → RD$20,875.00 (from 1-Jun-2026), ≈US$303 → US$337; proposed source (MT RD) for benchmark_min_wage_maquila_DOM
DGII (Dirección General de Impuestos Internos, República Dominicana)
- Text of Law 8-90 on Free Zone Promotion: 100% exemption from income tax, ITBIS value-added tax, customs duties, asset tax and municipal taxes for 15 years (20 in border zones or outside the National District), renewable; multi-sector (textiles, medical devices, tobacco, call centers, logistics)
TSS (Tesorería de la Seguridad Social, República Dominicana)
- Dominican employer contributions of ~15% — the reference for the regional total labor cost row
Policía Nacional (República Dominicana)
- Source for the Dominican Republic's homicide rate of 8.2 in 2025, −12.4% against 2024 (via Latinometrics)
ADOZONA (Asociación Dominicana de Zonas Francas)
- A possible source for wages actually paid in Dominican free zones
SHCP (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, México)
- Release No. 41 on Moody's downgrade to Baa3 (20-May-2026), which keeps the sovereign investment grade and moves the outlook from negative to stable
Secretaría de Economía (México)
- The IMMEX register — the pending source for the number of establishments and the direct employment of the export manufacturing program
INEGI (México)
- The EMIM survey — the pending alternative source for IMMEX employment
SESNSP (México)
- Source for Mexico's homicide rate of 17.5 in 2025, −9% year on year and −41% from the 2018 peak (via Latinometrics)
INDEX (México)
- A possible source for wages actually paid in IMMEX maquila plants
MEF Paraguay (Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas)
- Publishes the 'Regional Outlook of Sovereign Ratings' of Dec-2025: Costa Rica BB positive at Fitch; Guatemala, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic listed among Fitch's 'BB rising stars'
Programa Integral de Protección Agrícola y Ambiental (PIPAA)
- A program endorsed by the Ministry of Agriculture (MAGA) and attached to VISAR's Plant Health Directorate: inspection and sanitary or phytosanitary pre-certification of farms, packing plants and shipments under work plans agreed with importing countries; two coordinating units (Phytosanitary Certification and Agricultural Food Safety); it served 90 exporting companies (3-Jan to 30-Sep-2025) shipping to more than 70 countries; its inspectors certify the hydrothermal mango plants
Instituto Nacional de Bosques (INAB)
- Keeps an office at the single export window (VUPE); the official manual for classifying land by use capacity (which governs changes in forest land use); co-author of the Taxonomic Soil Classification
Cámara de Comercio de Guatemala
- Keeps an office at the single export window (VUPE) for certificates of origin
Anaguacate
- The Hass avocado trade association; the Anaguacate–APHIS cooperative agreement was still pending as of 5-Aug-2025
Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN)
- A geoportal carrying the Land Use Capacity Map (adjusted USDA methodology) and the Taxonomic Soil Classification at 1:250,000 (7 of 12 orders)
Asociación de Azucareros de Guatemala (ASAZGUA / Guatecaña)
- Coordinates the sugar agro-industry (founded in 1957): ~US$700 million a year in foreign exchange, 55,000 direct jobs and 278,000 indirect ones; no public case of a stake sold to foreign buyers — the practical way in is off-take, cogeneration or alcohol
ADECAR (asociación de exportadores de cardamomo)
- An association led by the three companies that export more than 80% of the cardamom (Agronómicas de Guatemala, Monte de Oro S.A. del Trópico and CARDEX)
Cámara Guatemalteca de la Construcción (CGC)
- Publishes Construcción en Cifras (construction GDP of Q30,171.3 million, +8.3% in 2025; investment of Q61,053.7 million), the Construction Sector Confidence Index (ICSC, 68.7 points in Apr-2026), the monthly Listado de Precios de Materiales and the quarterly Boletín Económico de la Construcción
Fopavi
- Supplied the single-family social housing model with which the statistics institute (INE) computes the first stage of the ICC
Ministerio de Gobernación (Mingob)
- Parent of DIGESSP and of the National Civil Police (PNC); it convened the 2024 public-private security working group against container-truck theft (monitoring of ~12,000 units, direct alerts to police precincts in <3 min); a candidate for a freedom-of-information request covering the PNC series on heavy-transport theft.
Policía Nacional Civil (PNC)
- Source of the statistics on extortion, kidnapping and heavy-transport theft; runs the response protocol for GPS alerts through police precincts; OSAC notes that it lacks personnel, equipment and investigative capacity (6 months of training) — it is no substitute for private protocols.
DIPANDA — División contra pandillas de la PNC
- A PNC division created in 2014 with 17 offices, part of the institutional response to extortion.
GECE — Grupo Especial Contra Extorsiones (PNC)
- A special PNC unit created in 2024 to counter extortion (OSAC CSR 2025).
PLADEIC (Mingob/PNC)
- Source of the monthly homicide figures and annualized rate compiled in CIEN's IDD bulletin (June 2026: 265 homicides, 8.83 a day, 16.3 per 100k).
PROVIAL
- The 1520 line for road conditions and blockades — recommended by OSAC for planning journeys (protests routinely block the CA-1, the CA-5 and the Pan-American Highway).
Fiscalía de Sección contra las Extorsiones (MP)
- A specialized prosecution unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP), created in 2015, with 11 offices.
Juzgado y Tribunal contra Extorsiones
- Specialized judicial bodies created in 2020 for the department of Guatemala (excluding Villa Nueva, Mixco and Amatitlán).
Congreso de la República — Comisión de Gobernación
- It passed Decree 11-2025 (the Anti-Gang Law, 21 October 2025) and ratified the state of siege of January 2026; its Interior Committee proposed restricting the purchase of signal jammers to the Ministry of the Interior (Mingob), with 3–7 years for possession by a private party.
- Publishes the consolidated text of the Criminal Code with the 2025 reforms (art. 261, extortion: 6–12 years, non-commutable).
AGIS — Asociación Guatemalteca de Instituciones de Seguros
- The insurers' trade association; suggested contact for cargo-cover requirements (mandatory GPS, escort scaled to value, deductibles for theft involving a jammer).
CGTC — Cámara Guatemalteca de Transporte de Carga
- The freight transport trade association; its executive director José Alejandro Ramírez reported 10–15 container thefts a week in early 2024.
Coordinadora Nacional de Transportes
- A hauliers' association; its coordinator María Teresa González documented the use of signal jammers (GPS, WiFi, mobile) in container-truck thefts.
OSAC — Overseas Security Advisory Council (Depto. de Estado de EE. UU.)
- Publishes the annual Guatemala Country Security Report (15 May 2025 edition): 24,978 extortion reports in 2024, kidnappings, areas of concern, corporate good practice (vehicles, routes, blockades, emergencies) and the 'material support' warning attached to paying extortion to FTO-designated groups.
Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Guatemala
- Issues security alerts (for example a temporary shelter-in-place during the state of siege of January 2026); it bars its staff from using public buses and unvetted taxis; its local employees have also been victims of extortion.
Bomberos
- Emergency numbers cited by OSAC for operations in Guatemala.
Comisión de Pueblos Indígenas del Congreso
- It issued an unfavourable opinion (4 December 2018) on Initiative 5450, the draft Consultation Law, the most serious legislative attempt on record.
Congreso de la República — Comisión de Turismo
- It is handling Initiative 6811 (a reform of the INGUAT Organic Law): a 100% exemption from income tax (ISR) for 10 years for boutique hotels (≤40 rooms), convention hotels (≥100 rooms) and ultra-luxury hotels (≥40 rooms), exemption from import duties and import value-added tax (IVA), the Foditur fund, a lodging tax on platforms and a Tourism Single Window.
Ministerio de Finanzas ('Finanzas')
- Named by the head of INGUAT as a necessary counterpart, alongside SAT, for estimating the fiscal impact of Initiative 6811.
Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes
- It administers Tikal National Park (372,593 visitors in 2024); the proposed source for the tikal_visitors indicator.
IDAEH — Instituto de Antropología e Historia
- Proposed source, with the Ministry of Culture and Sports, for the Tikal visitor indicator.
Municipalidad de Antigua Guatemala (Control Urbano)
- Building permits outside the maximum-conservation polygon (Urban Control; a file with a sworn statement, 2 sets of plans and professional liability); the Municipal Tourism Development Plan 2025-2029 with INGUAT and CityLab (a 2032 vision of the 'best city to live in, visit and invest in'; mayor Juan Manuel Asturias); a land-use plan (POT) with urban, expansion, rural and protection categories.
Observatorio de Turismo Sostenible de Antigua Guatemala (INGUAT)
- 971,930 non-resident visitors and an estimated US$277.4 M in foreign exchange in Antigua (2024); it measures the destination's hotel occupancy and supply.
Municipalidades de la cuenca de Atitlán (Panajachel, Santa Cruz La Laguna, San Marcos La Laguna, San Juan La Laguna, San Pedro, Santiago Atitlán)
- They issue the building permits in the basin and may request a prior opinion from AMSCLAE.
ASOPROTUR — gremial hotelera de Antigua Guatemala
- Trade association of small and mid-sized hotels in Antigua; it reports Holy Week bookings (95% in 2024; rates of Q500–1,500 a night for a double) and 'full' occupancy at the end of 2025 (large and mid-sized properties requiring a 3-night minimum); suggested contact for ADR/RevPAR.
CAMTUR — Cámara de Turismo de Guatemala
- Suggested contact for obtaining ADR/RevPAR by destination (there is no public STR series).
Asociación de Hoteles de Guatemala
- Suggested contact for obtaining ADR/RevPAR by destination.