rts) with crude oil alone accounting for half of this category. Others include: Capital Goods (24 percent); Automotive vehicles, parts, and engines (13 percent); Consumer Goods (12 percent) and Foods, Feeds, and Beverages (5 percent). Main imports partners are: China (18 percent of total imports), European Union (16 percent), Canada (14 percent), Mexico (12 percent) and Japan (6 percent). This page provides - United States Imports - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.
The United States of America is nicknamed the Land of the Free. But when it comes to America s top import partners at least in North America, perhaps that should be the Land of Free Trade given a third of American exports are delivered to Canada and Mexico. The 3 countries are free trade partners under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) .world s second-largest exporter, the USA shipped US $ 1.579 trillion worth of products around the globe in 2013. That figure represents 8.7% of worldwide exports estimated at $ 18.06 trillion for 2012.
America s Top Import Partnersis a list of the USA s top 15 trade partners that imported the most American shipments by dollar value during 2013. Also shown is each import country s percentage share of total USA exports.
1.Canada: $ 300,244,595,000 (19% of total American exports)
2. Mexico: $ 226,152,927,000 (14.3%)
3. China: $ 122,016,318,000 (7.7%)
. Japan: $ 65,144,805,000 (4.1%)
. Germany: $ 47,442,249,000 (3%)
. United Kingdom: $ 47,355,408,000 (3%)
. Brazil: $ 44,115,969,000 (2.8%)
. Netherlands: $ 42,654,340,000 (2.7%)
. Hong Kong: $ 42,450,374,000 (2.7%)
. South Korea: $ 41,555,044,000 (2.6%)
11. France: $ 34,091,295,000 (2.2%)
12. Belgium: $ 31,727,047,000 (2%)
. Singapore: $ 30,723,872,000 (1.9%)
. Switzerland: $ 27,002,011,000 (1.7%)
. Australia: $ 26,047,870,000 (1.6%)
Over two-thirds (71.5%) of American exports in +2013 were delivered to the above 15 trade partners.
Among these import nations, the United Kingdom and Germany decreased imports from America by the smallest percentages from +2009 to +2013 - 3.6% for the UK and 9.8% for Germany. The other countries showed a minimum gain of 26.1% for France up to the 101.1% increase for Hong Kong importers.
Hong Kong has been aggressively moving up the list of America s top import partners since 2010.
CHAPTER 3. THE MOST IMPORTANT SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY OF THE USA
3.1 Productive sector
The industry of the USA takes a special place in the international division of labour. The variety of industries, a wealth wih various raw materials and qualified personnel, advanced research base has allowed the American industry to provide mass production of a various batch production and release of unique devices and the equipment both for internal, and for the world market. greatest growth is characteristic for the branches defining and closely connected with a military production. For last decades in new branches were allocated:
The rocket industry,
Manufacture of space technics,
The semi-conductor industry,
Manufacture of the computer,
Scientific instrument making,
Manufacture of machine tools with programmed control,
The laser, vacuum, oxygen industry,
Manufacture of the equipment for prevention of pollution and clearing of environment,
The industry of fuel elements and others.the average in a manufacturing industry each 4 years it is updated not less than 20% of let out production.USA take a visible place on extraction of some the major minerals- coal, oil, natural gas, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, phosphorites. there was not enough own resources, and after 2 world wars of the USA from the exporter have turned to the largest importer of oil, iron ore, nonferrous metals, bauxites, manganous ore, antimony, diamonds, cobalt etc.location of the mining industry on areas USA there are the appreciable shifts connected with change of structure of branch, mainly growth of a share of extracted power resources. The South share- the basic area of ??an oil recovery, coal and gas increases in cost of production of the mining industry. The North and West share where b...
