Mexico: Economic Outlook 2010
Overview
GDP (nominal): 998,300 USD Inflation: 4.52%
(Inflation rate increased at the end of Year 2010
due to an increase in agricultural product prices.)
GDP per capita: 15,716 USD at PPP Unemployment rate: 4.9%
GDP Growth: 5% Currency: Mexican Peso (1 Peso = 2.4 THB)
Export goods: Manufactured goods, electronics, oil and oil products, aircraft, silver, computers and servers, fruits, meats, consumer electronics, processed foods, vegetables, ships, coffee
Import items: Steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, repair parts for motor vehicles and aircraft parts
Export partners: United States (76.5%), Canada (6%), German (1.7%)
Import partners: United States (44.3%), China (5.5%), South Korea (5.21%), Japan (4.1%)
Ease of Doing Business Rank: 35th
Mexico is ranked as the best country to establish a business in Latin America. (Peru: 36th,
Colombia 39th, Chile 43rd, Argentina 115th, Brazil 127th)
International Reserves: USD 119.5 thousand million (as of February 18, 2011)
(IMF approved two-year arrangement for Mexico under the Flexible Credit Line (FCL) in an amount equivalent to SDR 47.292 billion (about US$72 billion). )
Investment in Infrastructure: Increasing; From 2000-2006 average annual budgetary investment in infrastructure was 3.5% of GDP, from 2007 to 2011 it will be 4.5% of GDP.
Thailand-Mexico Economic Data
Trade Volume: 1365.54 million USD
(The trade volume in 2010 increases 45.12 % of trade volume in 2009. Export volume is 967.03 million USD. Import volume is 398.5 million USD)
Main Export items (From Thailand to Mexico)
- Electrical machinery equipment
- Machinery and Mechanical Appliance
- Vehicles, and Parts and Accessories
- Rubber
- Apparel
Main Import items (From Mexico to Thailand)
- Electrical machinery equipment
- Natural, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metal
- Vehicles, and Parts and Accessories
- Machinery and Mechanical Appliance
- Iron and Steel
Investment
(Thai): Indorama (Thailand) Company Limited
(Mexico): Cemex Company Limited
Source: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2011/pr1104.htm
Source: http://www2.ops3.moc.go.th/
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