products; wood products

Exports: $159 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Exports - commodities: manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver,
fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton

Exports - partners: US 88.4%, Canada 2%, Germany 0.9%, Spain 0.8%,
Netherlands Antilles 0.6%, Japan 0.4%, UK 0.4%, Venezuela 0.4%,
(2001 est.)

Imports: $168 billion (f.o.b., 2001)

Imports - commodities: metalworking machines, steel mill products,
agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly,
repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts

Imports - partners: US 68.4%, Japan 4.7%, Germany 3.6%, Canada 2.5%,
China 2.2%, South Korea 2.1%, Taiwan 1.6%, Italy 1.3%, Brazil 1.1%
(2001 est.)

Debt - external: $191 billion (2001)

Economic aid - recipient: $1.166 billion (1995)

Currency: Mexican peso (MXN)

Currency code: MXN

Exchange rates: Mexican pesos per US dollar - 9.1614 (January 2002),
9.3423 (2001), 9.4556 (2000), 9.5604 (1999), 9.1360 (1998), 7.9185 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Mexico

Telephones - main lines in use: 12.332 million (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.02 million (1998)

Telephone system: general assessment: low telephone density with about 12
main lines per 100 persons; privatized in December 1990; the opening to
competition in January 1997 improved prospects for development domestic:
adequate telephone service for business and government, but the population
is poorly served; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations;
extensive microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic
cable, coaxial cable, and mobile cellular service international: satellite
earth stations - 32 Intelsat, 2 Solidaridad (giving Mexico improved access
to South America, Central America, and much of the US as well as enhancing
domestic communications), numerous Inmarsat mobile earth stations;
linked to Central American Microwave System of trunk connections; high
capacity Columbus-2 fiber-optic submarine cable with access to the US,
Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Morocco, Spain, and Italy (1997)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 851, FM 598, shortwave 16 (2000)

Radios: 31 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 236 (plus repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 25.6 million (1997)

Internet country code: .mx

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 51 (2000)

Internet users: 3.42 million (2001)

Transportation Mexico

Railways: t