"Top Ten commodities for Iowa by rail ,1997"
"(Value in Thousands of Dollars ($))"
"All Rail Exports"
to Canada
"1 Miscellaneous chemical products (38)","49,890.7"
"2 Residues and waste from the food industries; Prepared animal feed (23)","46,363.4"
"3 Iron and steel (72)","16,636.9"
"4 Plastics and articles thereof (39)","10,156.2"
"5 Products of the milling industry; Malt; Starches; inulin; Wheat gluten (11)","7,657.1"
"6 Albuminoidal substances; Modified starches; Glues; Enzymes (35)","7,351.2"
"7 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; Prepared edible fats; Animal or vegetable waxes (15)","6,094.5"
"8 Sugars and sugar confectionery (17)","3,764.4"
"9 Railway or tramway locomotives, rolling stock and parts thereof; railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings and parts thereof; Mechanical (including electromechanical) traffic signaling equipment of all kinds (86)","3,364.0"
"10 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; Miscellaneous grains; Seeds and fruit; Industrial or medicinal plants; Straw and fodder (12)","3,105.3"

to Mexico
"1 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; Miscellaneous grains; Seeds and fruit; Industrial or medicinal plants; Straw and fodder (12)","53,000.8"
"2 Cereals (10)","27,579.2"
"3 Sugars and sugar confectionery (17)","14,951.6"
"4 Residues and waste from the food industries; Prepared animal feed (23)","13,908.6"
"5 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; Prepared edible fats; Animal or vegetable waxes (15)","3,892.2"
"6 Products of the milling industry; Malt; Starches; inulin; Wheat gluten (11)","1,393.3"
"7 Beverages, spirits and vinegar (22)","1,363.9"
"8 Albuminoidal substances; Modified starches; Glues; Enzymes (35)","1,278.7"
"9 Miscellaneous chemical products (38)","448.9"
"10 Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; Waste and scrap of paper or paperboard (47)","366.7"

"All Rail Imports"
from Canada
"1 Wood and articles of wood; Wood charcoal (44)","43,854.2"
"2 Paper and paperboard; Articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (48)","34,129.1"
"3 Cereals (10)","25,508.0"
"4 Fertilizers (31)","21,930.5"
"5 Inorganic chemicals; Organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes (28)","13,957.4"
"6 Plastics and articles thereof (39)","13,716.2"
"7 Aluminum and articles thereof (76)","7,435.7"
"8 Iron and steel (72)","6,506.4"
"9 Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; Bituminous substances; Mineral waxes (27)","5,516.8"
"10 Zinc and articles thereof (79)","4,375.2"

from Mexico
"1 Copper and articles thereof (74)","8,399.0"
"2 Inorganic chemicals; Organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes (28)","1,688.7"
"3 Paper and paperboard; Articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (48)","85.3"
"4 Special classification provisions (98)","64.0"
"5 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (84)","28.0"
"6 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; Parts and accessories thereof (90)","9.8"
"7 (Imports only) Temporary legislation; Temporary modifications established pursuant to trade legislation; Additional import restrictions established pursuant to Section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as needed (99)","No Trade"
"8 (Imports only) Temporary legislation; Temporary modifications established pursuant to trade legislation; Additional import restrictions established pursuant to Section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as needed (99)","No Trade"
"9 (Imports only) Temporary legislation; Temporary modifications established pursuant to trade legislation; Additional import restrictions established pursuant to Section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as needed (99)","No Trade"
"10 (Imports only) Temporary legislation; Temporary modifications established pursuant to trade legislation; Additional import restrictions established pursuant to Section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as needed (99)","No Trade"
"Rounding accounts for difference in individual and summed totals"
"Note that data between 1993-1996 include transshipment activity (i.e., shipments which entered or exited the United States by way of a US Customs port on the northern or southern borders but whose origin or  final destination was other tha
n Canada or Mexico).   Data beginning with January 1997 do not include transshipment activity.     Users  should note these differences before comparing figures for 1993-1996 with 1997 and subsequent year data."
"SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, Transborder Surface Freight Data"