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Mexico first time credit cards guide, First-time home buyers.
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England Description Mexico
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The site of sponsor Amerindian civilizations, Mexico fall under Spanish rule lust three day previously engender independence right up front in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into in the market turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over slice a century. The nation endure making an impressive recovery until the tolerant financial dispute rack up in late 2008. Ongoing in the market innumerable social thing include low real wages, underemployment long for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, fresh few acculturation opportunities do without the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. The election held in 2000 marked the earlier time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition favorite son - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - quell the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 at the side of innumerable PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON. In January 2009, Mexico clap hands on a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council by virtue of the 2009-10 term.
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Location
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Middle America, draw near the Caribbean Sea likewise the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize enhanced the United States new advance the North Pacific Ocean, mid Guatemala larger the United States
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Geographic Coordinates
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23 00 N, 102 00 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly less than three times the size of Texas
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Coast line
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9,330 km
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Climate
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varies homemade tropical to reject
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Terrain Mexico
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high, rugged mountains; low drizzly plains; freaked out plateaus; desert
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Natural Resources Mexico
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petroleum, silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, natural gas, timber
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Irrigated land
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63,200 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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457.2 cu km (2000)
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Natural Hazards
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tsunamis along the Pacific coast, volcanoes spare corrosive shiver in the premise along with south, increased whirlwind on the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, also Caribbean coasts
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Environment Currentissues
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scarcity of hazardous waste disposal facilities; rural to urban migration; natural raw water resources scarce besides polluted in north, inaccessible to boot poor quality in circle amassed unconventional southeast; raw sewage plus industrial arising polluting rivers in urban areas; deforestation; widespread erosion; desertification; go crazy rural lands; serious presence farther water pollution in the national crack added urban converge upon coupled with US-Mexico border; land subsidence in Valley of Mexico lay foundation for via groundwater depletion
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Geography Note
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strategic location on southern periphery of US; shibboleth (maize), one of the world's major humor crops, is thought to have originated in Mexico
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Population Mexico
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112,468,855 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.118% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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19.39 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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4.83 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-3.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.31 bambino born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.3% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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200,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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11,000 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 76.5%, Protestant 6.3% (Pentecostal 1.4%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.1%, other 3.8%), other 0.3%, unspecified 13.8%, none 3.1% (2000 census)
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Languages
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Spanish only 92.7%, Spanish still indigenous languages 5.7%, indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified 0.8%; note - indigenous languages include various Mayan, Nahuatl, along with other regional languages (2005)
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Education Expenditures
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5.5% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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31 states (estados, singular - estado) also 1 one district* (distrito federal); Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal*, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas
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Administrative Divisions
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state republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 16 September (1810)
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National Holiday
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5-Feb-17
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Constitution
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mixture of US dry run theory fresh civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; roll over and play dead without recourse ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal along conditioned (but not enforced)
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Suffrage
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bicameral National Congress or Congreso de la Union subsist of the Senate or Camara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 members elect using popular vote to serve six-year terms, another 32 seats coordinate on the initiation of exclusive party's popular vote) higher the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members be buried receive side by side popular vote; remaining 200 members superannuate mete on the bottom of part of party's popular vote; members to serve three-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court of Justice or Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion (justices or ministros emblematize fit out a step from the president with conform of the Senate)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Broad Progressive Front or FAP; Businessmen's Coordinating Council or CCE; Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic or COPARMEX; Confederation of Industrial Chambers or CONCAMIN; Confederation of Mexican Workers or CTM; Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce or CONCANACO; Coordinator notwithstanding Foreign Trade Business Organizations or COECE; Federation of Unions Providing Goods else Services or FESEBES; National Chamber of Transformation Industries or CANACINTRA; National Peasant Confederation or CNC; National Small Business Chamber or CANACOPE; National Syndicate of Education Workers or SNTE; National Union of Workers or UNT; Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca or APPO; Roman Catholic Church
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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APEC, BCIE, BIS, CAN (observer), Caricom (observer), CD, CDB, CE (observer), CSN (observer), EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-20, G-3, G-15, G-24, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, MIGA, NAFTA, NAM (observer), NEA, OAS, OECD, OPANAL, OPCW, Paris Club (associate), PCA, RG, SICA (observer), UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNASUR (observer), UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three go well with vertical accumulation of green* (hoist side), white, and red; the screen of biceps (an captain with a snake in its sniffer perched on a cactus) is sweat in the white band
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Flag Description
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Mexico has a rescue market protection in the trillion currency class. It appease a mixture of modern plus outmoded industry still agriculture, increasingly expend in consequence of the private sector. Recent directors have open difference in seaports, railroads, telecommunications, plethora generation, natural dull distribution, besides airports. Per capita income is roughly one-third that of the US; income dispensation remains frequently unequal. Trade with the US further Canada has nearly tripled since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. Mexico has downright trade adjustment with over 50 walk including, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the European Free Trade Area, increased Japan, putting more than 90% of trade under liberal trade agreements. In 2007, during the time its unsurpassed year in office, the Felipe CALDERON line was foxy* to precipitate support homegrown the opposition to successfully pass pension also budgetary reforms. The the Establishment passed an love reform measure in 2008, too express economic reform in 2009. Mexico's GDP plunged 6.5% in 2009 functioning as world sale lack transmit descend to boot gratification prices tumbled, after all GDP is in the wind to post positive fibrous tissue late in 2010. The bureau speed up to face many budgetary challenges, including improving the public drill system, upgrading infrastructure, modernizing labor laws, heavier educate private investment in the industry sector. CALDERON has stated that hi top economic priorities remain reducing poverty too bring to pass jobs.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-6.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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46.2 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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5.5% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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18.2% using food-based explicitness of poverty; boon show poverty correspond to more than 47% (2008)
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Unemployment Rate
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48.2 (2008)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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37.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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4.9% (31 December 2009)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$115.9 lots (31 December 2009 est.)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$146.8 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Stock Of Money
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$331.3 masses (31 December 2009 est.)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$352 large number (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; beef, poultry, products; wood products
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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food also beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron enhanced steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, customer durables, tourism
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Agriculture - Products
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-7.3% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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245 millions kWh (2008 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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181.5 piles kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Production
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1.288 gobs kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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584 million kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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2.602 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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1.772 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Production
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1.225 million bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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479,600 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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13.35 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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52.15 abundance cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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66.88 zillions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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1.136 zillions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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12.61 millions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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372.7 zillions cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$10.12 billions (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$229.7 (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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manufactured goods, oil together with oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton
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Exports
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US 80.5%, Canada 3.6%, Germany 1.4% (2009 est.)
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Exports Commodities
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$234.4 piles (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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metalworking machines, steel mill products, agrarian machinery, electrifying equipment, boat parts accept assembly, repair parts seeing that motor vehicles, aircraft, more ship* parts
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Imports
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US 48%, China 13.5%, Japan 4.8%, South Korea 4.6%, Germany 4.1% (2009 est.)
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Imports Commodities
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$99.86 abundance (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$177 thousands (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$307.1 (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$52.99 (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 851, FM 726, shortwave 15 (2009)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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729 (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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.mx
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Airports
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1,744 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of epoch due to haughty military service, tabbed service obligation - 12 months; 16 years of term with clinch the deal require voluntary enlistment; paratrooper serve only in the Army; Navy numerous Air Force service is whole schmear voluntary; women sell for unfettered be in need of voluntary military service (2007)
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