US Exports

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 06:34 PM 11/4/01 -0800, Love Shack wrote:
>  Other then food I do not
>know what the USA exports to other countries.

Arms sales are a minute portion of US exports.  This information is freely
available at your local library.  A lot of US income is derived from
"invisible exports" -- financial transactions -- as New York is the
second-most-important financial center in the world and this brings in huge
chunks of money by itself.  We also export technology -- almost all of the
high-tech gadgetry we buy is made overseas -- but the patents are owned in
the US, a reward for our extensive and intensive research and development
base.

And then there IS entertainment, a comodity now almost entirely US-owned.
Every time a Schwarzenegger film is a hit in India or Taiwan or South
Africa, profits pour into Hollywood, USA.

Food?  Sure, we export some.  But we sell a LOT of other things overseas!

Marc

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