Mexico is located as an eighth exporter of goods that enable the Artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report by the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The data of this analysis corresponds to the year 2022, calculating Mexican exports of this type of goods worth 100,000 million dollars.
The analysis is included in the 2025 World Trade Report and considers products such as silicon dioxide, Galio, Germanio, integrated electronic circuits, semiconductors and computers, among others.
China’s respective exports exceeded 700,000 million dollars, followed by Taiwan (500,000 million), South Korea (almost 300,000 million), the European Union (more than 200,000 million) and the United States, Japan and Malaysia (with about 200,000 million each).
While the European Union, the United States and Japan They are still important exporters of intermediate inputs and equipment that facilitate AI, the growth of these exports has been more moderate.
“Emerging manufacturing centers such as Malaysia, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand have also increased their exports of inputs and intermediate equipment related to AI,” says the report.
Worldwide, the World trade of goods that enable the AI It amounted to 2.9 billion dollars in 2022 and 2.3 billion dollars in 2023.
Imports of IA -related goods have grown considerably since 2012, mainly driven by intermediate inputs, which represent most and grew more quickly between 2017 and 2022 before falling in 2023.
According to the WTO, this decrease may reflect commercial restrictions, regulatory changes, changes in export capacity or prior strategic hoarding.
Computer imports, semiconductors and other equipment that enable AI also increased constantly, although their participation remained less, while imports of raw materials and processed chemicals remained relatively stable, which underlines its limited but strategic role in the AI value chain.
The increase in intermediate input imports highlights the growing demand for high performance AI infrastructure.
“IA has enormous potential to reduce commercial costs and boost productivity, as well as to create new ways for the production and export of services,” said Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
The simulations of the WTO They suggest that the use of AI could boost the trade of goods and services in almost 40% by 2040.
“However, the effects of the development and implementation of AI are provoking the concern that many workers, and even entire economies could be left behind,” said Okonjo-Iweala.
The last decades of globalization generated important advances for both rich and poor countries, but many people and regions did not enjoy benefits properly.
“This exclusion is closely related to current tensions around trade, and it is an experience that we cannot allow us to repeat with the AI revolution,” added Okonjo-Iweala.
According to her, the central question that addresses the 2025 World Trade Report It is whether AI can serve as a catalyst for inclusive growth driven by trade, and how, or if it could end up expanding the gaps between economies and within them.
“The message of this report is clear: trade can be a powerful facilitator of an inclusive transformation towards AI. It can help economies access the AI, as well as the inputs that enable it, to promote the dissemination of innovation and to open new developments of development. But this potential can only materialize if we act deliberately, closing the digital gaps, investing in the workers and promoting the workers and promoting the workers Regulatory coherence, ”he concluded.
