Who Buys The Goods We Make? The United States makes more of many items than we can use, so we sell them to other countries. Items made in the U.S. and sold abroad are called exports and the countries to whom we sell the excess goods are called trading partners. Here are some of the countries with whom we traded our extra goods in 1998.
Export Trading Partners  |
Export Trading Partners| Country | Percent of Total 1998 Exports |
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| Canada | 25.6% | | Mexico | 12.9 | | European Union | 24.4 | | France | 2.9 | | Germany | 2.9 | | United Kingdom | 6.4 | | South America | 6.8 | | Argentina | 1.0 | | Brazil | 2.4 | | Chile | 0.6 | | Asia | 30.3 | | China | 2.3 | | Japan | 9.5 | | Hong Kong | 2.1 | | South Korea | 2.5 | | Singapore | 2.5 | | Taiwan | 2.9 | | Malaysia | 1.5 | | Philippines | 1.1 | | Thailand | 0.8 |
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