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Surface trade with the United States, Mexico, and Canada was reported as 12.7 percent higher in November 2011 than in November 2010, totaling $76.7 billion according to the United States Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). This measure includes freight transportation movements by truck, rail, pipeline, mail, Foreign Trade Zones, and other. The BTS calculates that 84.8 percent of United States trade by value moved by land, 10.8 percent by vessel, and 4.4 percent by air in November 2011. |
