Several improvements to the transportation estimates were made to incorporate newly available source data. Census Bureau data on freight charges for the transportation of goods by truck between the United States and Canada replaced the BEA projections that had previously been used to estimate truck receipts and payments. This improvement begins with estimates for 1995. In addition, estimates of foreign-operated ocean carriers’ expenses in U.S. ports were revised to reflect newly available data--from a BEA survey of ocean transportation--on the types of expenses incurred in U.S. ports by foreign ocean carriers. This improvement begins with estimates for 1992.
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