Talk:List of the largest trading partners of the United States

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In what way shall I get the list of top 10 largest trading companies ?

This page is useless. It shows imports and exports ytd in June and ytd in December and compares them as if to show trade as doubled in that time —Preceding unsigned comment added by Delboy666 (talk • contribs) 15:36, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

2012 figures are available

Here — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soulflytribe (talk • contribs) 09:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

what are trade partners of the united states — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.107.111 (talk) 02:03, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

European Union

I have an issue with the EU being listed here. Aside from the fact that the EU is not a country but an economic and political union of independent states, it then proceeds to list individual EU countries after listing the EU. We should either take off the EU or individual EU countries.--RM (Be my friend) 22:52, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Ahem. The United States of America is also an economic and political union of states, right? The EU negotiates trade agreements en bloc with the US, afaik, so it makes sense to list the combined trade in addition to individual countries' trade. It might also make sense to include purely geographics based combined sums for various areas, like Europe (as the UK is not in the EU after Brexit, the EU is relegated to the fourth largest trade partner, but Europe as a whole is still the area with most trade if you add the numbers), Africa, Asia, and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the Pacific Ocean). 5.186.55.135 (talk) 13:25, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

The 20 Largest Trade Partners

Where did the figures (including the percentages) for the top 20 largest trade partners of the United States come from? The original source (which was incorrectly linked to 2012 rather than 2014) only showed the top 15 largest trade partners of the United States.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/2014pr/final_revisions/index.html

I assume it came from the list on this page rather, with the PDF there (titled "U.S. Trade in Goods by Country and Area: 2014") requiring manual calculations as well as ordering to find the totals as well as other derivative figures of the top 20 largest trade partners for the year in question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChineseToTheBone (talk • contribs) 07:25, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

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Goods & Services Question

Hello everyone,

I thought it was worthwhile to ask why this list excludes imports and exports of services? Or, why there are not 3 lists: one for goods, one for services, and one for both. There is a lot to be learned from an explicit goods based look at the world economy, but it is by no means the whole picture.

The United States is a service based economy and exports significantly more services than any other country. This seems to be a relevant fact when discussing US trade relationships. I feel that ignoring services on this wiki gives a very skewed and antiquated view of the global economy. It also leads to confusion in our politics. For example, there has been a misconception pushed by the Trump Administration that the US runs a deficit with Canada prompting many to feel we are taken advantage of by our northern neighbor. This is an utterly false notion, as Canada imports services which balances the raw materials that go the other way and create a US surplus.

I have worked on analyzing NAFTA and CAFTA trade relations before but this does not make me an expert by any means. What does the community think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcelya (talk • contribs) 20:40, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

This seems eminently reasonable. Certainly “trade” involves only the exchange of currency for something of value. It should be conceptually agnostic to whether those are goods or services. 73.74.96.25 (talk) 04:11, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Mexico stuff and 2019 update.

The below was in the article lead:

The total trade, imports plus exports to Mexico were 614.5 billions.https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top1912yr.html

I don't see why this one country merits specific inclusion in the article lead when it's also in the body tables, so I've removed it.

However, the source looks alright and its figures may be newer than the ones used in the article body, so I'm leaving it here.

Intralexical (talk) 01:36, 26 July 2021 (UTC)