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March 2013
Trade Numbers
Deficit: $38.8 Billion
Exports: $184.3 Billion
Imports: $223.1 Billion
Next release: June 4, 2013
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U.S. Trade with World (Total) in Advanced Technology Products
- Monthly and Cumulative Data (in Millions US $)
| Advanced Technology Grouping | Exports DECEMBER 2012 |
Imports DECEMBER 2012 |
Exports NOVEMBER 2012 |
Imports NOVEMBER 2012 |
Exports YTD as of DECEMBER 2012 |
Imports YTD as of DECEMBER 2012 |
Exports YTD as of DECEMBER 2011 |
Imports YTD as of DECEMBER 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (01) Biotechnology | 611 | 924 | 701 | 841 | 9,648 | 11,312 | 8,939 | 11,718 |
| (02) Life Science | 2,855 | 2,994 | 2,888 | 3,749 | 31,621 | 44,414 | 29,194 | 45,832 |
| (03) Opto-Electronics | 499 | 1,976 | 390 | 2,650 | 5,200 | 26,385 | 6,017 | 26,108 |
| (04) Information & Communications | 8,019 | 18,937 | 8,225 | 22,422 | 91,394 | 219,470 | 89,432 | 212,111 |
| (05) Electronics | 3,101 | 2,729 | 3,325 | 2,791 | 41,228 | 33,939 | 43,284 | 34,040 |
| (06) Flexible Manufacturing | 1,142 | 1,256 | 849 | 969 | 13,930 | 13,921 | 14,207 | 14,393 |
| (07) Advanced Materials | 207 | 153 | 169 | 159 | 2,144 | 2,121 | 2,169 | 2,232 |
| (08) Aerospace | 10,734 | 3,543 | 9,282 | 3,594 | 104,877 | 39,132 | 88,998 | 34,863 |
| (09) Weapons | 238 | 100 | 153 | 96 | 2,567 | 1,019 | 2,542 | 937 |
| (10) Nuclear Technology | 180 | 328 | 67 | 534 | 1,856 | 4,271 | 1,995 | 4,201 |
| TOTAL For World (Total) | 27,584 | 32,941 | 26,047 | 37,806 | 304,465 | 395,984 | 286,779 | 386,434 |
Additional Information
- Contact the Data Dissemination Branch of the Foreign TradeDivision with any questions or for additional information.
- For information on data sources and methodology, check out the Information on theCollection and Publication of Trade Statistics.
- For descriptions of the ATP categories, check out the ATP Definitions..
- MORE DATA: Data for all countries and Advanced Technology Products (ATP) for DECEMBER 2012 are available online in a comma delimited file (Approximately 121k).
- For information on data sources and methodology, check out the Information on theCollection and Publication of Trade Statistics.
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