At 04:13 PM 5/23/01 +1200 K.Feete wrote:
>They have a thing on tv here which people keep coming and getting me to
>watch- it's called "Only in America,"
Somehow, I think that "Only in New Zealand" just wouldn't catch on here -
even if New Zealand had an equal number of absurd stories, no?
Of course, that only makes me wonder about the relative arrogance of other
countries......
>Oh, well, nice to know America is good for something... even if it's just
>a steady source of amusement....
>
>Kat Feete
>
>P.S. Just out of curiousity, does anyone know of anything America
>actually produces? I thought we produced stuff, but then I came here and
>started taking classes and learned that America is actually a net
>importer of most things- even things we export (like food). Are we a net
>*exporter* of *anything*? Does anybody know?
According to the CIA World Factbook:
America exported $663 billion worth of good and services in 1998. Top
exports included: capital goods, automobiles, industrial supplies and raw
materials, consumer goods, agricultural products
Here's a nice graph of our Top 15 exports in 1993:
http://www.census.gov/epcd/oei/images/fig1ex93.gif
The full scoop on all of our *commodity* exports is here:
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/usfth/aggregate/HL00T41.txt
If you want data on export of services, I can probably dig it up - but its
way past my bedtime.
JDG
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