Figure 2-6: Top 25 U.S. Foreign Trade Freight Gateways by Value: 2003 ($billions)

The top 25 foreign trade gateways measured by value of shipments are comprised of 8 airports, 11 water ports, and 6 border crossings. At these 25 gateways, imports comprised 64 percent of the total. Ports with very large shares of imports relative to exports are mostly water ports (such as the ports of Los Angeles, CA, Long Beach, CA, and Tacoma, WA). Anchorage International Airport also has very high proportion of imports relative to exports

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Gateway	Type	Rank	Exports	Imports	Total
Port of Los Angeles, CA	Water	1	16.9	105.2	122.1
JFK International Airport, NY	Air	2	46.6	65.3	111.9
Port of Detroit, MI	Land	3	54.5	47.3	101.9
Port of New York, NY and NJ	Water	4	24.3	76.9	101.2
Port of Long Beach, CA	Water	5	17.2	78.7	95.9
Port of Laredo, TX	Land	6	32.4	46.4	78.8
Los Angeles International Airport, CA	Air	7	32.6	31.2	63.8
Port of Huron, MI	Land	8	22.7	39.6	62.3
Port of Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY	Land	9	27.4	32.0	59.4
Chicago, IL	Air	10	20.6	33.7	54.3
Port of Houston, TX	Water	11	21.4	28.5	49.9
San Francisco International Airport, CA	Air	12	20.6	26.1	46.6
Port of Charleston, SC	Water	13	13.4	26.0	39.4
Port of El Paso, TX	Land	14	16.7	22.5	39.2
Port of Norfolk Harbor, VA	Water	15	11.0	18.5	29.5
New Orleans, LA	Air	16	13.7	13.7	27.4
Port of Tacoma, WA	Water	17	5.2	21.1	26.3
Port of Baltimore, MD	Water	18	5.7	20.3	26.0
Port of Oakland, CA	Water	19	7.8	17.4	25.1
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX	Air	20	11.4	12.2	23.6
Port of Seattle, WA	Water	21	5.7	17.4	23.1
Miami International Airport, FL	Air	22	14.0	8.8	22.7
Anchorage, AK	Air	23	5.6	16.5	22.1
Port of Savannah, GA	Water	24	7.4	13.9	21.3
Port of Otay Mesa Station, CA	Land	25	8.3	11.4	19.7

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2004 (Washington, DC: forthcoming)