kilopascal wrote:
>
> 2002-05-11
>
> Jim,
>
> I confused as to what you symbols: $G $/N mean. I have a few ideas, but
> none seem to fit the symbols as I would think they should be. Did you mean
> gigadollars per national population?
Yes, in both cases. Gigadollars and dollars per citizen.
> The other thing is I don't think you can assume that the exports of the EU
> is 3 times more than the US based on that chart. There is no entry for the
> EU as a whole. I don't see how you can determine from the data as to how
> much of the exports, for any EU country listed is exported outside the EU or
> to another EU country.
Good point, John! Thanks for finding this large flaw in my analysis. I
guess we could waffle and tell people that the countries of the EU
out-export the US by a factor of 3 and leave it up to the listener to
figure out that most of that could be to each other's countries. OTOH,
some numbers I saw a few years ago show that exports outside the EU by
the EU countries had matched, at least, US exports. I vaguely recall
that I saw that on one of the Department of Commerce pages.
Jim
