Mexico
Mexico is the United States second largest
agricultural trading partner with bilateral trade
equal to over $20 billion. Mexico is the top export destination for beef, rice,
soybean meal, sugars and sweeteners, apples and dry
edible bean exports. It is the second export market
for horticultural products, and third largest for
pork, poultry and eggs. Agricultural trade
between the United States and Mexico has been
completely liberalized under the North American Free
Trade Agreement, signed in 1994 and fully
implemented in January 2008. More than half the
value of agricultural trade became duty free when
the agreement went into effect, with the remaining
tariff reductions implemented over the 1994-2008
period. NAFTA also provides for strict rules of
origin to ensure that maximum benefits accrue only
to those items produced in North America.
Population: 110 million
GDP per capita: $14,400.00 (2008 est)
Agriculture: 3.7 percent of GDP (2008 est.) –
34.1 percent Industry and 62.2 percent Services
Agricultural Production: food and beverages,
tobacco
Major Agricultural Exports: fruits, vegetables,
coffee, cotton, pork
Major U.S. Agricultural Exports to Mexico: beef,
rice, soybean meal, sugars and sweeteners, apples
and dry edible beans
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