Statement from Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank on International Trade in Goods and Services in July 2012
Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank issued the following statement today on the release of the July 2012 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report (PDF) (July 2012) by the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis. U.S. goods and services exports in July 2012 were down 1.0 percent from June 2012 to reach $183.3 billion and imports declined 0.8 percent to $225.3 billion.