The Year-over-Year Decline in Southbound Freight at the Canada-US Border

Authors

Border Policy Research Institute

Document Type

Border Policy Brief

Publication Date

2009

Keywords

Trade, Economic Relationships, Transportation

Abstract

This article examines truck- and rail-borne freight flows at five land ports-of-entry along the Canada – U.S. border: Blaine, WA; Sweetgrass, MT; Detroit, MI; Buffalo, NY; and Champlain, NY. The five ports were chosen to provide geographic diversity, as well as a range of sizes. Together, these five ports handled 53 percent of the truck-borne freight entering the U.S. from Canada in December 2007, so the trends found at these ports likely are representative of the situation along the entire border. A year-over-year methodology was used in order to account for background seasonal variations. Rather than examining the value of goods, which depends upon factors such as currency exchange rates, commodity price fluctuations, and inflation, we analyzed the weight of goods traversing the border.

Volume

4

Issue

2 - Spring

Recommended Citation

Border Policy Research Institute, "The Year-over-Year Decline in Southbound Freight at the Canada-US Border" (2009). Border Policy Research Institute Publications. 31.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/bpri_publications/31

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

United States--Boundaries--Canada; Canada--Boundaries--United States

Geographic Coverage

United States; Canada

Genre/Form

technical reports

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf