Mexico facts of the day

I have been expecting this for a long time, but it came more quickly than I thought:

Mexico is now the world’s top buyer of U.S. goods, according to data released by the U.S. government on Wednesday, outpacing Canada for the first time in nearly 30 years.

The data highlighted how Mexico and the United States have, despite periodic political tensions, become deeply intertwined in business, and how much global trade patterns have shifted in a short period. Only two years ago, Mexico became the country that sold the most goods to the United States, surpassing China.

“Mexico is the United States’ main trading partner,” said Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s economy minister, during the president’s daily news conference on Wednesday.

Here is more from the NYT.  Via Brian Winter.  As I have been telling people for decades now, visiting Mexico, learning about Mexico, and learning Spanish are very good investments in understanding the world, most of all if you live in the USA.