State Foreign Export Patterns

Abstract

The pattern of U.S. state exports to foreign destinations-which states export which goods to which destinations-has not been studied in detail despite the high profile of exports in the public consciousness. Currently there is not a unified description of facts characterizing exports for all states, destinations, and manufacturing subsectors. I combine research methods from plant-or firm-level and country-level empirical international trade on a cross section of state export data to list nine stylized facts. I also compare some of these facts to those in Eaton, Kramarz (2004, 2010) to show what differs.JEL Classification: F12, F13, R12, R38

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