The following is excerpted from the 30 August 2011 edition of The Journal of Commerce.

The dollar value of U.S. surface trade with Canada and Mexico rose 11 percent in June to $77.5 billion, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said Tuesday.

That’s a 52.7 percent increase from June 2009, when the economic recovery was just beginning, and a 4.6 percent increase over June 2008 — the previous high mark...

This article is available in its entirety on The Journal of Commerce website at:

http://www.joc.com/global-trade/nafta-surface-trade-rises-11-percent

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