What does Mexico produce and export?

What does Mexico produce?

What does Mexico export?

Mexico's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Mexico's own $55.7 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Crude oil alone is 48% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Mexico compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Corn: #1, 9.8% of world imports, $4.7 billion (2024)
• Soybeans: #2, 3.7% of world imports, $3 billion (2024)
• Cinnamon: #3, 11% of world imports, $90.5 million (2024)
• Milk: #3, 4.7% of world imports, $1 billion (2024)
• Pork: #3, 7.9% of world imports, $2.9 billion (2024)
• Apples: #4, 4.7% of world imports, $382.3 million (2024)
• Oats: #4, 5.3% of world imports, $59.1 million (2024)
• Chicken: #5, 5% of world imports, $1.8 billion (2024)
• Palm kernel oil: #5, 10% of world imports, $109.9 million (2024)
• Peanuts: #5, 4.5% of world imports, $209.5 million (2024)
• Sisal: #6, 3.9% of world imports, $26.9 million (2024)
• Phosphate rock: #7, 3.5% of world imports, $181.9 million (2024)
• Titanium: #7, 3.6% of world imports, $114.6 million (2024)
• Pepper: #8, 3.1% of world imports, $188.1 million (2024)
• Urea: #8, 2.8% of world imports, $564.4 million (2024)
• Aluminum: #9, 3.8% of world imports, $3 billion (2024)
• Canola: #9, 3.2% of world imports, $423.2 million (2024)
• Copper: #9, 1.5% of world imports, $1.5 billion (2024)
• Eggs: #9, 3.3% of world imports, $194.8 million (2024)
• Plywood: #9, 2.6% of world imports, $443.8 million (2024)
• Steel: #9, 3.5% of world imports, $2.4 billion (2024)
• Cheese: #10, 2.4% of world imports, $1.1 billion (2024)
• Cotton: #10, 1.3% of world imports, $226.8 million (2024)
• Grapes: #10, 2.7% of world imports, $351.8 million (2024)
• Potatoes: #10, 1.8% of world imports, $132 million (2024)
• Sawnwood: #10, 2% of world imports, $764.2 million (2024)
• Sesame seed: #10, 1.8% of world imports, $143.7 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Mexico commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Mexico is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Avocados #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Barite #5 producer
• Chickpeas #5 exporter
• Coconut oil #5 producer
• Fluorspar #3 producer, #1 exporter
• Mangoes #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Molybdenum #5 producer, #5 exporter
• Orange juice #3 producer
• Oranges #3 producer
• Silver #1 producer, #3 exporter
• Sorghum #5 producer
• Strontium #4 producer
• Tomatoes #1 exporter
• Vanilla #3 producer
• Zinc #5 producer

Mexico in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Mexico, computed from the same data as this page.

What Mexico uses

Mexico had about 130 million people and a food supply of 3,305 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Mexico's tea (−10 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 3 thousand tonnes, exports 13 thousand tonnes); plantains (−15 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 0 tonnes, exports 15 thousand tonnes); dates (−33 thousand tonnes; production 17 thousand tonnes, imports 6 thousand tonnes, exports 56 thousand tonnes), meaning exports exceed production plus imports in the year. These are not counted as use and are left out of the table above.

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Mexico

• Single-supplier markets. Mexico buys half or more of its imports from one country in 19 of 26 import markets of $250 million or more, among them natural gas from United States (98%, $7.0 billion); corn from United States (100%, $4.7 billion); soybeans from United States (77%, $3.0 billion); pork from United States (81%, $2.9 billion); steel from United States (53%, $2.4 billion); chicken from United States (63%, $1.8 billion). Import dependency.

How long Mexico's own reserves would last

• Silver: Mexico's reserves are about 6 years of its own output at the current rate (24% of world output, 6.1% of world reserves), against 23 years for the world.
• Fluorspar: Mexico's reserves are about 45 years of its own output at the current rate (15% of world output, 21% of world reserves), against 33 years for the world.
• Molybdenum: Mexico's reserves are about 8 years of its own output at the current rate (6.5% of world output, 0.8% of world reserves), against 66 years for the world.
• Zinc: Mexico's reserves are about 18 years of its own output at the current rate (6% of world output, 5.8% of world reserves), against 18 years for the world.
• Lead: Mexico's reserves are about 28 years of its own output at the current rate (4.4% of world output, 5.9% of world reserves), against 21 years for the world.

USGS national reserve figures, rounded. A short national figure usually reflects how little has been proved up, not when mining stops. See country reserve life.

Mexico and critical minerals

Mexico is the largest producer of 1 mineral on a US or EU critical list, each at 20% or more of world output: silver (24%, 2025). Source: the concentration report on USGS, FAOSTAT and Energy Institute production.

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Data updated 22 October 2026.

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