Yes. In fact, the United States is the largest consumer of Mexican oil, accounting for some 80-85% of all oil exports.
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Yes. Most of the time the US has a trade deficit with Mexico.
It already does.
There is a trade amount of some US$294 billion, including US$179 billion on exports from Mexico into the United States, and US$115 billion on imports from the United States into Mexico.
Mexico's largest trade partner is the United States. Oil exports from Mexico to the United States totaled US$26.7 billion for 2014, or 70% of total oil exports from Mexico. The second and third largest importers of Mexican oil include respectively, Spain ($5.3 billion or 12% of total oil exports) and India ($2.6 billion, or 7% of oil exports).
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If you take Mexico out of the equation, balance would be positive by about US$ 11.4 billion. This is because trade with Mexico is larger that the trade with the rest of all Latin America combined:US-Central and South America Trade (2012):exports: US$ 183,187.8 millionimports: US$ 171,780.5 millionbalance: US$ 11,407.3 millionUS-Mexico Trade (2012)exports: US$ 215,931.2 millionimports: US$ 277,569.8 millionbalance: US$ -61,638.6 million
In 1853, the US President Franklin Pierce and Mexico's ruler Santa Ana agreed to have the US purchase land from Mexico. The area was a small strip of land between the US and Mexico. The US idea was that a transcontinental railroad could run from New Orleans to California. The chief US negotiator was James Gadsden. The agreed price was $10 million.
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NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Association; it helped Mexico, Canada, and the US trade easier with each other.
It already does: bilateral trade between Canada and Mexico accounts for approximately US$18.86 billion (2009).
No.