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• Attraction of new FDI in sectors: consolidated, incipient, and new. • Establishment and after care: accompaniment and advice on soft-landing, supplier management, alliances with actors in the FDI ecosystem, new incentives, reinvestments and the elimination of obstacles and/ or bottlenecks to investment. • Special programs: outside of GAM, human talent, clusters, and linkages. These three axes will work with competitiveness and sustainability in a transversal way. Likewise, the strategy proposes addressing eight priorities: • Attract new foreign direct investment. • Generate employment, linkages and economic growth throughout the country. • Develop new strategic sectors to attract FDI to the definitive The lines of action of the strategy presented by PROCOMER are:

regime and free zones. • Diversify countries of origin of the investment. • Improve the investment climate to boost competitiveness. • Generate employment and linkages outside the GAM. • Contribute to the development of human talent. • Promote FDI with a social and environmental return. The Manager added that the institution's strategy seeks to address the diversification through new investment models, serving consolidated sectors as well as new ones, attracting investment in free zones and in the definitive regime, as well as encourage new investment models such as project portfolio, Joint Ventures, mergers, and acquisitions, Brownfield and BOT (build operate-transfer). All this hand in hand with a strategy of competitiveness through the resolution of bottlenecks and articulation between the public sector, private sector and academia, areas in which PROCOMER has extensive experience. To develop this work, PROCOMER has the experience of more than PROCOMER

25 years in the administration of the free zone regime - thus established in the Law of its creation - a network of 26 trade promotion and investment offices with extensive knowledge and international trajectory and that will be strengthened in new markets. It also has 7 regional offices that know first-hand the needs of the different areas outside the GAM, as well as a new Investment Directorate, from which the strategy and the established priorities will be addressed. PROCOMER's FDI strategy was carried out by a team of local experts and organizations in international trade and investment and was submitted to the analysis of the Board of the Institution during multiple work sessions. On June 5th, 2023, the plan was unanimously approved by the Board of Directors.

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