These Mexican states export the most to the US

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Each US state has an intricate transnational relationship with their Mexican counterparts, particularly those in the north of Mexico. These border states naturally have an edge in that other states’ goods might need to flow through them to reach the US. The state of Chihuahua, for example, exported over $70B worth of goods last year, with a special focus on computers and electronics. Meanwhile, transport equipment dominates in the exports of states such as Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.

So trade across the Rio Grande is evidently just as important for Mexico’s economy as it is for the US one, if not more. For decades now, the bilateral commercial relationship has been responsible for millions of jobs across central and northern Mexico, especially since the Border Industrialization Program of 1965 and the cropping up of tariff-free factories known as maquiladoras.

In fact, such close integration with the US may well have led to Mexico avoiding the path of many of its counterparts down in South America, which have struggled to industrialize and leave behind agriculture and primary extractive industries as their economic engines.

Today manufacturing plays a significant role in the Mexican economy alongside trade in both high-value goods and services. And this is likely to persist, given that over half of the staggering $36B invested into Mexico last year went to manufacturing—led, of course, by the auto industry.