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Weight of U.S. Exports to and Imports from Canada and Mexico by Transportation Mode

(Millions of short tons)

Embedded Dataset Excel:

Dataset Excel:

table_01_60b_082624.xlsx (211.25 KB)

Notes:

The U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics estimated the weight of exports for truck, rail, pipeline, and other modes using value to weight ratios derived from imported commodities.

1 Short ton = 907.185 kilograms

Description:

KEY: R = revised.

 

a Other includes "flyaway aircraft" or aircraft moving under their own power (i.e., aircraft moving from the manufacturer to a customer and not carrying any freight), powerhouse (electricity), vessels moving under their own power, pedestrians carrying freight, mode unknown, mail, imports into Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs), and miscellaneous. Although FTZs are treated as a mode of transportation in the Transborder Freight Data, the actual mode for a specific shipment into or out of an FTZ is unknown because U.S. Customs does not collect this information.

Source:

All modes except export truck, rail, and pipeline:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transborder Freight Data, available at https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/myhq-rm6q as of Dec. 20, 2023.

Export truck, rail, and pipeline:

2007-16: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transborder Freight Data, available at https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/myhq-rm6q as of Dec. 20, 2023.

2017-23: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Freight Analysis Framework, available at https://faf.ornl.gov/faf5/Default.aspx as of Aug. 7, 2024.

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