By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s total exports amounted to $39.632 billion in August, representing a drop of 4.58 percent compared to the previous month, its biggest drop in 15 months, according to seasonally adjusted data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The nation’s imports also decreased in August to $42.829 billion, down 3.36 percent compared
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite repeated promises by the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that the country will be self-sufficient in the production of corn — Mexico’s main grain — by the end of his six-year term, halfway through his sexenio, the nation continues to import more than a third of its maize demands.
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By KELIN DILLON According to figures from the U.S. Department of Energy, Mexico is expected to increase its purchase of natural gas from the United States over 2021 and the upcoming year due to higher demand and less production in Mexico itself. In June of 2021, Mexico reportedly bought more than 7 billion cubic feet of gas on several different
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of the end of 2020, Mexico is now the world’s largest exporter of strawberries, displacing Spain for the very first time in more than two decades- According to the Mexican Secretariat of the Economy, the country’s international strawberry sales totaled $851 million in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 12.4 percent. In that same
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican tequila exports registered a 16.2 percent jump in 2020 as compared to the previous year, marking an all-time high, according to the Tequila Regulatory Council (CRT). Last year, total tequila exports amounted to 286.7 million de liters, the highest volume ever sold abroad, the CRT said in a report on Wednesday, Feb. 17.
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Rumors Abound Ever since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced in a tweet on Sunday, Jan. 24, that he had tested positive for coivd-19 and had gone into quarantine, countless rumors have been flying across the media and gossip mills as to the validity of his announcement. Some critics suggested that AMLO had not, in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s exports fell by a whopping 9.34 percent in 2020 — the worst drop in the country’s foreign sales since 2009, when exports plunged by 21.16 percent compared to the previous year — according to figures released by the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi) on Wednesday, Jan. 27. Mexico’s petroleum exports were
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