Table 2-7 - Major Commodities Shipped in the United States: 1997
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Table 2-7 - Major Commodities Shipped in the United States: 1997
(Commodity Flow Survey data only)
| Ranked by value | |
|---|---|
| Commodity | Percent |
| Electronic and other electrical equipment and components and office equipment | 12.1 |
| Motorized and other vehicles (including parts) | 7.8 |
| Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles or leather | 7.2 |
| Miscellaneous manufactured products | 6.8 |
| Mixed freight | 5.9 |
| Machinery | 5.9 |
| Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils | 4.6 |
| Printed products | 4.1 |
| Plastics and rubber | 3.9 |
| Base metal in primary or semifinished forms and in finished basic shapes | 3.8 |
| Ranked by tons | |
|---|---|
| Commodity | Percent |
| Gravel and crushed stone | 16.0 |
| Coal and coal products | 10.8 |
| Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel | 7.8 |
| Nonmetallic mineral products | 7.6 |
| Cereal grains | 4.8 |
| Logs and other wood in the rough | 4.3 |
| Fuel oils | 3.9 |
| Natural sands | 3.9 |
| Coal and petroleum products, n.e.c. | 3.8 |
| Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils | 3.5 |
| Ranked by ton-miles | |
|---|---|
| Commodity | Percent |
| Coal and coal products | 18.5 |
| Cereal grains | 8.6 |
| Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel | 5.0 |
| Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils | 4.6 |
| Base metal in primary or semifinished forms and in finished basic shapes | 4.6 |
| Basic chemicals | 4.2 |
| Gravel and crushed stone | 3.6 |
| Wood products | 3.6 |
| Nonmetallic mineral products | 3.4 |
| Pulp, newsprint, paper, and paperboard | 3.3 |
KEY: n.e.c. = not elsewhere classified; P = preliminary.
NOTE: Data exclude shipments of crude petroleum.
SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, based on U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1993 Commodity Flow Survey: United States, TC92-CF-52 (Washington, DC: 1995).
____. 1997 Commodity Flow Survey: United States Preliminary, EC97TCF-US(P) (Washington, DC: 1999).