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Within Latin America itself, there is a clear contrast between relatively faster-growing economies, like Chile and Mexico (until recently), on the one hand, and relatively slower-growing economies like Argentina and Brazil, on the other. None of these countries ‘punches its weight’ as exporters; over the past 20 years, their average export growth has been significantly lower than that of the East Asian economies. During the 1990s, the major exception was Mexico (which does not really regard itself as ‘Latin American’ anyway).
It shows the strong tendency for countries to trade most with their neighbours. 7 .. 3 .. 1 .. 4 .. 3 .. 8 .. 4 The network of world trade, 2008 Source: calculated from WTO, 2009: Table A2 Africa 350 100 20 <$20 billion not shown 20 Part One The Shifting Contours of the Global Economy x Europe is the world’s major trading region. However, almost three-quarters of that trade is intra-regional, that is between European countries themselves. Around 7 per cent of Europe’s exports go to North America and 7 per cent to Asia (including Japan).
The contrast between the two is striking. In the case of manufactures, exports dominate: China’s main markets for its manufactures are other parts of Asia (40 per cent), the EU (21 per cent) and the US (18 per cent). In the case of fuels and mining products, imports dominate: China’s main sources for these commodities are the Middle East (24 per cent), other parts of Asia (34 per cent), Africa (16 per cent) and South and Central America (13 per cent). Overall, then, China’s impact on the global economy is manifested in the following ways:21 x Resource-intensive growth.