Table 2-7: U.S. Land Exports to and Imports from Canada and Mexico by Mode ($ millions)
Trade with Canada by land modes is much higher than trade with Mexico. Both have been growing rapidly over the past few years. Imports and exports to Mexico measured by value grew by 61 percent and 49 percent respectively between 1998 and 2005. Imports and exports to Canada grew by 64 percent and 40 percent respectively.
Table in Excel format | Historical data
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1998 | 2000 | 2004 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exports to Canada, total | 137,745.4 | 154,847.4 | 171,878.1 | 192,907.5 |
| Truck | 114,806.1 | 129,825.3 | 135,897.5 | 151,221.7 |
| Rail | 12,279.6 | 12,946.5 | 16,596.6 | 19,321.9 |
| Pipeline | 93.4 | 161.6 | 1,584.2 | 2,393.9 |
| Other1 | 10,559.5 | 11,913.4 | 17,776.7 | 19,933.1 |
| 6.8 | 0.6 | 23.1 | 36.9 | |
| Exports to Mexico, total | 70,173.8 | 97,158.9 | 97,303.7 | 104,276.5 |
| Truck | 60,432.1 | 82,389.2 | 79,349.2 | 83,341.2 |
| Rail | 6,188.8 | 10,495.8 | 13,632.9 | 15,747.7 |
| Pipeline | 73.4 | 301.8 | 87.2 | 543.3 |
| Other1 | 3,470.0 | 3,972.0 | 4,216.4 | 4,622.7 |
| 0.1 | (R) 0.0 | 18.1 | 21.6 | |
| Imports from Canada, total | 162,105.7 | 210,270.5 | 236,734.9 | 265,402.1 |
| Truck | 108,856.7 | 127,816.3 | 132,762.1 | 143,695.6 |
| Rail | 37,374.1 | 49,699.2 | 57,947.2 | 60,606.3 |
| Pipeline | 11,120.1 | 23,117.1 | 36,828.3 | 48,766.5 |
| Other1 | 4,575.1 | 9,571.0 | 8,994.4 | 12,184.4 |
| 1.7 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
| FTZ2 | 177.9 | 62.8 | 202.6 | 149.3 |
| Imports from Mexico, total | 84,102.9 | 113,436.5 | 127,646.3 | 135,400.5 |
| Truck | 65,883.7 | 88,668.7 | 104,943.8 | 112,267.6 |
| Rail | 12,029.7 | 21,056.1 | 20,183.4 | 20,782.2 |
| Pipeline | 2.4 | 11.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Other1 | 917.8 | 1,573.9 | 1,838.7 | 1,990.2 |
| 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| FTZ2 | 2,886.7 | 2,125.7 | 679.8 | 360.4 |
Key: - = value too small to report.
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) were added as a mode of transport for land import shipments beginning in April 1995. Although FTZs are treated as a mode of transportation in the Transborder Surface Freight Data, the actual mode for a specific shipment into or out of an FTZ is unknown because U.S. Customs does not collect this information.
Note: Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transborder Surface Freight Data, available at www.bts.gov/transborder as of March 23, 2006.
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