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President George W. Bush
World Trade Week Proclomation
May 16, 2008

Site Updated: August 5, 2008

Facts Of The Day

February 28, 2008

Total trade among the NAFTA partners more than doubled in the first 13 years of NAFTA. Combined trade is $2.5 billion a day among NAFTA partners, $1.7 million per minute. U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico increased from $142 billion in 1993 to $365 billion in 2006, representing over one-third of total U.S. exports

Source: International Trade Administration