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

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

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

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

(Thousands of roundtrips)

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  1990 1996 1999 Percentage change, 1990-1999 Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Mexican resident overnight travel to the United States 7,040 100.0...

Box 1. International Merchandise Trade Data Sources

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...