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Freight Facts and Figures 2008

Table 2-9. Value of U.S. Land Exports to and Imports from Canada and Mexico by Mode of Land Transportation: 1998-2007

In addition to total trade with Canada and Mexico, trucks and railroads carry most of the trade in each direction across both borders. Pipelines also carry a significant volume of imports from Canada.

Table in Excel format | Historical data

Millions of current dollars

Empty cell. 1998 2000 2006 2007
Exports to Canada, total 137,745.4 154,847.4 209,283.2 226,058.3
Truck 114,806.1 129,825.3 164,318.1 174,342.7
Rail 12,279.6 12,946.5 22,477.8 25,496.8
Pipeline 93.4 161.6 2,180.0 3,334.5
Other1 10,559.5 11,913.4 20,263.4 22,833.8
Mail 6.8 0.6 43.8 50.5
Exports to Mexico, total 70,173.8 97,158.9 116,749.2 118,758.5
Truck 60,432.1 82,389.2 92,991.6 93,047.2
Rail 6,188.8 10,495.8 17,271.2 19,340.0
Pipeline 73.4 301.8 707.0 787.4
Other1 3,470.0 3,972.0 5,779.1 5,581.0
Mail 0.1 <0.1 0.3 2.9
Imports from Canada, total 162,105.7 210,270.5 278,889.2 284,773.1
Truck 108,856.7 127,816.3 149,884.0 150,404.1
Rail 37,374.1 49,699.2 63,258.4 65,962.2
Pipeline 11,120.1 23,117.1 53,865.2 55,015.6
Other1 4,575.1 9,571.0 11,736.0 12,957.4
Mail 1.7 4.1 0.2 0.4
FTZ2 177.9 62.8 145.5 433.5
Imports from Mexico, total 84,102.9 113,436.5 155,205.1 167,713.2
Truck 65,883.7 88,668.7 126,463.6 137,037.0
Rail 12,029.7 21,056.1 25,863.5 27,060.0
Pipeline 2.4 11.5 55.4 168.6
Other1 917.8 1,573.9 2,399.2 2,696.4
Mail 0.2 0.6 <0.1 NA
FTZ2 2,886.7 2,125.7 423.3 751.1

1 “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, and unknown and miscellaneous.

2Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) are treated as a mode of transportation in the TransBorder Freight Data because U.S. Customs does not collect actual mode for a specific shipment into or out of an FTZ.

Note:

Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

Source:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, TransBorder Freight Data, available at www.bts.gov/transborder as of June 3, 2008.

 

 


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