Trade Facts
By ITA’s Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs WASHINGTON – U.S. exports supported an estimated 9.2 million jobs in 2010, up from 8.7 million in 2009, according to a report issued today by the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. For every billion dollars of exports, over 5,000 jobs are supported. “The exports surge in [...]
Combining sales of manufactured goods, farm products, services, and natural resources, the United States tops Germany and China by about $200 billion as the world’s top exporter, and leads in agricultural goods, services, software, education, military technology, airplanes, chemicals, medicine and more. Though only third as a manufacturing exporter (at $800 billion, behind China and Germany), the U.S. exports as much services as second- and third-place UK and Germany combined. Likewise American farm exports, at $120 billion, are as much as the next two countries together.
Rare earth production and reserves, in tons, as of 2009 —
| Production | Reserves | |
| World | 124,000 tons | 99 million tons |
| China | 120,000 tons | 36 million tons |
| United States | 0 tons | 13 million tons |
| All other | 4,000 tons | 50 million tons |
Last week we asked: Which of the following countries was the first foreign country to have coins minted in the United States? The correct answer: Venezuela was the first official foreign coinage client for the U.S. Mint. The 1 Centavo and 2½ Centavo coins made of a copper-nickel alloy were produced in the Philadelphia Mint [...]
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