Northern America (excluding intra-trade) Mules and hinnies Import quantity

Northern America (excluding intra-trade) Mules and hinnies Import quantity: Key Points

• Two numbers frame this chart: 100.00 animals for Northern America (excluding intra-trade)'s mules and hinnies import quantity in 2018, 22.00 animals in 2023. That gap works out to a 78% fall.
• 2019: leaps to 1.20K animals (+1097%).
• 2020: falls away sharply to 420.00 animals (-65%).
• 2021: drops hard to 3.00 animals (-99%).
• 2022: surges to 30.00 animals (+900%).
• By 2023, the series lands at 22.00 animals — 78.0% lower than its 2018 starting point.

Why Trade Collapsed in 2020

A series that moves both ways like this is telling you the underlying driver isn't fixed — conditions are shifting, or the indicator itself is sensitive to short-term noise.

This isn't a local trade failure — 2020's disruption to global supply chains and demand hit trade flows broadly, not just here.

Worth pairing this with the same indicator for a handful of comparable economies before concluding anything about Northern America (excluding intra-trade) specifically — a move that looks large here can be the regional norm, or genuinely unusual, and this chart alone can't say which.

Worth remembering this isn't a live feed — it's Northern America (excluding intra-trade)'s periodically-updated official statistics, with the usual lag and modeling that comes with any indicator series like this.

This is a small trade volume in absolute terms — at this scale, a single shipment, buyer, or contract can move the national total by a large percentage. Don't read year-to-year swings here as an economy-wide signal.