Trade Fact of the Day
The U.S. manufactured goods trade balance improved 122 percent with our FTA partners, but only six percent with non-FTA partners in the first five months of 2008.
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Facts Of The Day
March 26, 2008
Alaska’s export shipments of merchandise in 2007 totaled $3.9 billion, up 42 percent from 2003. Export-supported jobs linked to manufacturing account for an estimated 3.4 percent of Alaska's total private-sector employment. Over one-fourth or 25.9 percent of all manufacturing workers in Alaska depend on exports for their jobs. (2005 data are the latest available.)
Source: Prepared by the International Trade Administration
