ANALYSIS: How the Pandemic Affected Trade Between the US, Canada, Mexico

Trucks wait in a long queue for border customs control to cross into the U.S. at the World Trade Bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on April 2, 2019. Daniel Becerril/Reuters

U.S. trade with Canada and Mexico has rebounded to $1.6 trillion after taking a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to official data.

From 2019 to 2020, the value of total trade with Canada and Mexico slumped by 13.3 percent to $1 trillion, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The weight of goods crossing the border decreased by 3.7 percent to 557.7 million tons.