st.), includes in-bond
industries
commodities: crude oil, oil products, coffee, silver, engines, motor
vehicles, cotton, consumer electronics
partners: US 82%, Japan 1.4%, EC 5% (1993 est.)

Imports: $79.4 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.), includes in-bond
industries
commodities: metal-working machines, steel mill products, agricultural
machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts
for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts
partners: US 74%, Japan 4.7%, EC 11% (1993 est.)

External debt: $128 billion (1994 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 4.5% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 28,780,000 kW
production: 122 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,239 kWh (1993)

Industries: food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel,
petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer
durables, tourism

Agriculture: accounts for 7% of GDP; large number of small farms at
subsistence level; major food crops - corn, wheat, rice, beans; cash
crops - cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivation of opium poppy and cannabis
continues in spite of government eradication program; major supplier
of heroin and marijuana to the US market; continues as the primary
transshipment country for US-bound cocaine and marijuana from South
America; increasingly involved in the production and distribution of
methamphetamine

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $3.1 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $7.7 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $110 million

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

Exchange rates: market rate of Mexican pesos (Mex$) per US$1 - 6.736
(average in March 1995), 5.5133 (January 1995), 3.3751 (1994), 3.1156
(1993), 3,094.9 (1992), 3,018.4 (1991), 2,812.6 (1990)
note: the new peso replaced the old peso on 1 January 1993; 1 new peso
= 1,000 old pesos

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 24,500 km
standard gauge: 24,410 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 93 km 0.914-m gauge

Highways:
total: 242,300 km
paved: 84,800 km (including 3,166 km of expressways)
unpaved: gravel and earth 157,500 km

Inland waterways: 2,900 km navigable rivers and coastal canals

Pipelines: crude oil 28,200 km; petroleum products 10,150 km; natural
gas 13,254 km; petrochemical 1,400 km