Figure 2. Balance of U.S. Merchandise Trade with Canada and Mexico: 1994 - 2000

Billions of Current Dollars

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SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, special tabulation, April 2001; based on: total trade,...

Table 13. Top 10 U.S.-Canada Border Crossings for Incoming Passengers and Personal Vehicles: 2000

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Box 3. Spotlight on Two California Gateways: San Ysidro and Otay Mesa

Two of the busiest U.S. border gateways, the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry, processed over 41.5 million northbound passengers in personal vehicles and 8 million northbound pedestrians in 2000 (see table...

Passenger Travel Between the United States and Canada and Mexico

In 1999, approximately 300 million visits (or roundtrips) were recorded between the United States and Mexico and the United States and Canada, an increase of just over 5 percent from the 285 million North American resident cross...

Table 9. Mexico-U.S./U.S.-Mexico Travel by Mode of Transportation

(Thousands of roundtrips)

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Box 1. International Merchandise Trade Data Sources

This report uses trade data from many sources: the Census Bureau's U.S. Merchandise Trade data, the Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) balance of payments trade data, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) Transborder Surface Freight...

Figure 11. Travel and Passenger Fare Transactions with Mexico; 1990 - 2000

Millions of Chained 1996 Dollars

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, July 2001.

Table 3. Value of U.S. Merchandise Trade with NAFTA Partners by Mode: 1997-2000

(Millions of dollars)

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Table 4. U.S. Merchandise Trade with Canada and Mexico by Mode: 2000

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Introduction

Canada and Mexico are the United States largest trading and travel partnersaccounting for one-third of the value of U.S. international tradeand are the top destinations for Americans traveling abroad. Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect in...