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It depends on each region and country. Some examples are provided:
- Mexico: food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism.
The Caribbean
- Cuba: petroleum, nickel, cobalt, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, construction, steel, cement, agricultural machinery, sugar.
- Dominican Republic: soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement blocks, shoes.
- Haiti: textiles, sugar refining, flour milling, cement, light assembly using imported parts.
- Guatemala: sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism.
- Costa Rica: microprocessors, food processing, medical equipment, textiles and clothing, construction materials, fertilizer, plastic products.
- Panama: construction, brewing, cement and other construction materials, sugar milling.
South America
- Brazil: textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment.
- Argentina: food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, Metallurgy, steel.
- Chile: copper, lithium, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and steel, wood and wood products, transport equipment, cement, textiles
- Peru: mining and refining of minerals; steel, metal fabrication; petroleum extraction and refining, natural gas and natural gas liquefaction; fishing and fish processing.
- Colombia: textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds.
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