US Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico
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Value of U.S. - Canada Trade (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Value of U.S. - Mexico Trade (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Surface
freight is useful in monitoring the value and modal patterns of trade with
Canada and Mexico, our North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
partners. Canada is our largest
trading partner. Mexico now ranks
second. Surface modes include not only
truck, rail, and pipeline, but also government mail and other miscellaneous
modes.
| Truck (millions of
dollars) |
28,336 |
28,425 |
| Percent change from same
month previous year |
11.41 |
0.31 |
| Rail (millions of
dollars) |
7,519 |
7,906 |
| Percent change from same
month previous year |
12.18 |
5.15 |
| Pipeline (millions of
dollars) |
4,560 |
4,841 |
| Percent change from same
month previous year |
41.00 |
6.17 |
| Truck (millions of
dollars) |
18,903 |
20,265 |
| Percent change from same
month previous year |
16.74 |
7.21 |
| Rail (millions of
dollars) |
3,520 |
4,078 |
| Percent change from same
month previous year |
10.37 |
15.84 |
| Pipeline (millions of
dollars) |
67 |
58 |
| Percent change from same
month previous year |
29.60 |
-13.70 |
NOTE: The
current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous
year to account for seasonality.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and
Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics,
Transborder Surface Freight Dataset; August 2007; available at: http://www.bts.gov/ntda/tbscd/prod.html. The original data are from U.S. Department
of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Exports of Merchandise data and U.S.
Imports of Merchandise data.
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