Why the Mexico-U.S. economic relationship is so vital

*Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture was in Dallas yesterday, and his remarks about the commercial ties between his country and the U.S. reminds us of the reality we should remember, as Mercedes Olivera wrote to me, “every time Trump speaks.” VL


dallas morning newsBy Mercedes Olivera, Dallas Morning News

Every day, about $1.5 billion in goods and services goes back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico.

That’s about $1 million a minute, says Mexico’s secretary of agriculture, José Calzada Rovirosa.

The U.S. imported more than $20 billion in agricultural products from Mexico last year, according to federal data. But it also exported about $18 billion in agricultural goods to Mexico, which is our third-largest agricultural export market.

After Canada, Mexico buys more total goods from the U.S. than anyone else. It buys more from the U.S. than India, Russia, Brazil and China combined.

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“Today, this commercial exchange makes us the most dynamic economic region in the world,” Calzada said.

That’s a message most Americans aren’t getting in news reports . . . READ MORE



Mercedes Olivera is a veteran Dallas Morning News columnist. She’s a former Fulbright Scholar who studied at the University of Dallas, New York University and Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico.

[Photo by Michael Sean Terretta/Flickr]

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