The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Commerce Department have released a new “United States of Trade” report detailing the impact of trade in all 50 states, just as the Obama Administration presses Congress to pass promotion authority (TPA) legislation.
The interactive report provides state-by-state snapshots of trade benefits and breaks down the value of goods exported, jobs supported, number of companies that sell their goods oversees, and the percent of those that are smaller businesses. The report also contains data for each state on the trade benefits linked to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, both major trade deals under negotiation.
The report, available here, says 43 states made strides in exports last year and overall 11.7 million U.S. jobs were supported by exports in 2014.
