"Top Ten commodities for Nebraska by rail ,1997"
"(Value in Thousands of Dollars ($))"
"All Rail Exports"
to Canada
"1 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; Prepared edible fats; Animal or vegetable waxes (15)","10,181.0"
"2 Lead and articles thereof (78)","6,023.8"
"3 Residues and waste from the food industries; Prepared animal feed (23)","3,066.6"
"4 Rubber and articles thereof (40)","1,882.9"
"5 Sugars and sugar confectionery (17)","1,650.3"
"6 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (84)","605.4"
"7 Iron and steel (72)","567.2"
"8 Cereals (10)","305.3"
"9 Furniture; Bedding, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings; Lamps and lighting fittings, not elsewhere specified or included; Illuminated signs, illuminated nameplates and the like; Prefabricated buildings (94)","242.2"
"10 Ores, slag and ash (26)","176.6"

to Mexico
"1 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; Miscellaneous grains; Seeds and fruit; Industrial or medicinal plants; Straw and fodder (12)","74,722.3"
"2 Cereals (10)","30,995.7"
"3 Residues and waste from the food industries; Prepared animal feed (23)","5,988.9"
"4 Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; Prepared edible fats; Animal or vegetable waxes (15)","5,438.2"
"5 Products of the milling industry; Malt; Starches; inulin; Wheat gluten (11)","1,501.4"
"6 Sugars and sugar confectionery (17)","668.4"
"7 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)","599.4"
"8 Inorganic chemicals; Organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes (28)","374.9"
"9 Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic material; Waste and scrap of paper or paperboard (47)","372.9"
"10 Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof (84)","149.7"

"All Rail Imports"
from Canada
"1 Paper and paperboard; Articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (48)","27,165.3"
"2 Wood and articles of wood; Wood charcoal (44)","26,290.6"
"3 Cereals (10)","22,259.3"
"4 Plastics and articles thereof (39)","7,301.1"
"5 Inorganic chemicals; Organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes (28)","4,854.4"
"6 Products of the milling industry; Malt; Starches; inulin; Wheat gluten (11)","3,378.4"
"7 Fertilizers (31)","3,368.0"
"8 Zinc and articles thereof (79)","2,506.4"
"9 Iron and steel (72)","1,901.3"
"10 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)","998.6"

from Mexico
"1 Paper and paperboard; Articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard (48)","87.1"
"2 Special classification provisions (98)","82.9"
"3 (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"
"4 (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"
"5 (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"
"6 (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"
"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"