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Mexico, Canada, China and Japan: Share of U.S. Goods Trade
Exports plus imports of goods with each partner as a share of all U.S. goods trade, %
0 of 4 series are above their level a year earlier·3 of 4 are at a five-year low
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Mexico · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
Canada · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
China · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
Japan · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. A projection, not a promise.
U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Trade in Goods by Country (the FT-900 country data): exports plus general imports of goods, calendar years. Germany includes West Germany before 1991; Vietnam starts in 1992. Goods only. Shares are a Palanor calculation against the Census world total, from 1987.
The four partners that have each been the largest U.S. trading partner at some point since 1987, as shares of U.S. goods trade.
What this chart reads
- Mexico's Share of U.S. Goods Tradeas “Mexico”latest 2025-12-31
- Canada's Share of U.S. Goods Tradeas “Canada”latest 2025-12-31
- China's Share of U.S. Goods Tradeas “China”latest 2025-12-31
- Japan's Share of U.S. Goods Tradeas “Japan”latest 2025-12-31
Sources
Mexico's Share of U.S. Goods Trade. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Trade in Goods by Country (FT-900). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Canada's Share of U.S. Goods Trade. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Trade in Goods by Country (FT-900). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
China's Share of U.S. Goods Trade. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Trade in Goods by Country (FT-900). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Japan's Share of U.S. Goods Trade. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Trade in Goods by Country (FT-900). Public domain. Shares calculated by Palanor.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.