Exports and imports of goods and services

This table also can be found in the article, "The U.S. economy to 2020: recovery in uncertain times," published in the January 2012 Monthly Labor Review.

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Table 4.6 Exports and imports of goods and services, 1990, 2000, 2010, and projected 2020

Category

Billions of chained 2005 dollars

Annual rate of change

1990

2000

2010

2020

1990-2000

2000-10

2010-20

Exports of goods and services

$599.7

$1,187.4

$1,663.3

$3,065.1

7.1

3.4

6.3

Goods

395.3

843.4

1,164.9

2,114.0

7.9

3.3

6.1

Nonagricultural

348.6

778.3

1,077.3

2,016.5

8.4

3.3

6.5

Agricultural

46.9

64.1

86.1

110.6

3.2

3.0

2.5

Services

209.0

343.5

498.9

955.2

5.1

3.8

6.7

Residual1

-4.8

1.6

1.0

-17.2

-

-

-
 

Imports of goods and services

672.6

1,638.7

2,085.0

3,258.4

9.3

2.4

4.6

Goods

512.3

1,366.7

1,729.3

2,815.3

10.3

2.4

5.0

Nonpetroleum

412.8

1,153.6

1,503.5

2,616.5

10.8

2.7

5.7

Petroleum

140.6

215.9

227.0

265.8

4.4

0.5

1.6

Services

171.3

271.7

357.4

448.0

4.7

2.8

2.3

Residual2

-52.2

-2.5

-2.9

-71.9

-

-

-
 

Trade deficit

-72.8

-451.3

-421.8

-193.3

20.0

-0.7

-7.5

Footnotes:
 1 The residual following the detail categories for exports is the difference between the aggregate of "exports of goods and services" and the sum of the figures those separate categories for exports of goods and services.
 2 The residual following the detail categories for imports is the difference between the aggregate of 'imports of goods and services" and the sum of the figures those separate categories for imports of goods and services.
Note: Dash indicates data not computable or not applicable.

Source: Historical data: Bureau of Economic Analysis; Projected data: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Last Modified Date: February 01, 2012