Electronics

The electronics industry produces audio, video and computer equipment, commercial and office, electro-medical equipment and electro-parts (electronic components). The electrical-electronic industry is the country’s main productive export activity, since it amounted to 20 percent of total exports in 2007. Mexico has 690 industrial enterprises which generated more than 315,000 direct jobs in the same year. The largest manufacturing percentage corresponds to televisions, computer equipment and cellular telephones.
                                

The electronics industry in Mexico is made up mainly of companies that assemble end products which require imported inputs. Between 2000 and 2007, foreign investment in that industry reached 3.524 billion dollars, which were channeled mainly into production of high-technology television sets, TV de-codifiers and cellular telephones. Mexico’s exports in this sector in 2007 totaled 64.5 billion dollars.