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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
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