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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 North America 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 | 66 | 22 | 120 | 15 | 1,320 | 369 | 1,311 | 507 |
| (02) Life Science | 361 | 301 | 352 | 384 | 3,696 | 4,435 | 3,276 | 4,269 |
| (03) Opto-Electronics | 104 | 978 | 85 | 1,414 | 1,005 | 12,207 | 1,313 | 12,731 |
| (04) Information & Communications | 2,920 | 2,465 | 3,262 | 2,706 | 36,635 | 33,311 | 37,600 | 32,046 |
| (05) Electronics | 623 | 222 | 675 | 193 | 8,536 | 2,623 | 8,863 | 2,278 |
| (06) Flexible Manufacturing | 168 | 86 | 168 | 79 | 2,038 | 1,103 | 1,801 | 1,075 |
| (07) Advanced Materials | 37 | 22 | 38 | 29 | 470 | 314 | 443 | 287 |
| (08) Aerospace | 1,027 | 964 | 702 | 862 | 8,160 | 9,041 | 7,737 | 7,974 |
| (09) Weapons | 7 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 104 | 147 | 121 | 146 |
| (10) Nuclear Technology | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 117 | 42 | 110 | 32 |
| TOTAL For North America | 5,318 | 5,077 | 5,416 | 5,697 | 62,081 | 63,592 | 62,575 | 61,345 |
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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