The Reference Guide to Data Sources by Julia Bauder

Author:Julia Bauder [Bauder, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LAN025060 Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Digital & Online Resources
ISBN: 9780838919637
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2014-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Economics—Trade and Tariffs

As anyone who has paid attention to a presidential campaign in the United States knows, trade is both an economic and a political issue. The sources in this chapter contain data both on the volume of international trade—the values and quantities of goods and, to a lesser extent, services that are created in one country and then sent to another—and on tariffs, trade agreements, and other politically enacted policies that attempt to restrict or encourage international trade.

Major Sources: United States

Responsibility for international trade statistics in the United States is divided between three divisions of the U.S. Department of Commerce: the Census Bureau and the International Trade Administration both disseminate statistics on international trade in tangible goods, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis disseminates data on trade in services and intangible goods. Collectively, they distribute trade data through several different sites.

Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)

The Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade website (www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html) bills itself as “the official source for U.S. export and import statistics.” Its data on the value of imports and exports is available in the following ways:

• Overall annual data on trade between the United States and the rest of the world is available 1960 to present (www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/).

• Monthly and annual data on overall trade (total imports, total exports, and trade balance) between the United States and individual foreign countries, territories, or regions of the world is available 1985 to present for many countries, with shorter time series available for territories (www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/country/).

• In the “U.S. International Trade Statistics” section, one can find detailed monthly data about trade between the United States and individual foreign countries in specific products, 2000 to present (http://censtats.census.gov/naic3_6/naics3_6.shtml).

• Additional monthly data on trade in “advanced technology products,” such as computer and electronic equipment, certain medical products, and aerospace products, is available 1989 to present for overall import and export data, and 2003 to present for data broken down by country and type of product (www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/country/).

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