ith links to US companies)

Exports--commodities: crude oil, oil products, coffee, silver,
engines, motor vehicles, cotton, consumer electronics

Exports--partners: US 87.5%, Canada 1.3%, Japan 0.8%, Spain 0.6%,
Chile 0.6%, Brazil 0.5% (1998 est.)

Imports: $111.5 billion (f.o.b., 1998), includes in-bond
industries (assembly plant operations with links to US companies)

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

Imports--partners: US 74.2%, Japan 3.7%, Germany 3.7%, Canada
1.8%, South Korea 1.5%, Italy 1.3%, France 1.2% (1998 est.)

Debt--external: $154 billion (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $1.166 billion (1995)

Currency: 1 New Mexican peso (Mex$) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Mexican pesos (Mex$) per US$1--10.1104 (January
1999), 9.1360 (1998), 7.9141 (1997), 7.5994(1996), 6.4194 (1995),
3.3751 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 11,890,868 (1993 est.)

Telephone system: highly developed system with extensive
microwave radio relay links; privatized in December 1990; opened to
competition January 1997
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
international: satellite earth stations--5 Intelsat (4 Atlantic Ocean
and 1 Pacific Ocean); launched Solidaridad I satellite in November
1993 and Solidaridad II in October 1994, giving Mexico improved
access to South America, Central America and much of the US as well
as enhancing domestic communications; linked to Central American
Microwave System of trunk connections

Radio broadcast stations: AM 824 (1999 est.), FM 500 (1998 est.),
shortwave 19 (1999 est.)

Radios: 22.5 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 236 (not including repeaters)
(1997)

Televisions: 13.1 million (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 31,048 km
standard gauge: 30,958 km 1.435-m gauge (246 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 90 km 0.914-m gauge (1998 est.)

Highways:
total: 252,000 km
paved: 94,248 km (including 6,740 km of expressways)
unpaved: 157,752 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: 2,900 km navigable rivers and coastal canals

Pipelines: crude oil 28,2