The perception that the United States lags behind other countries, especially Asian nations, in exporting information technology deserves another look, according to a recent market report. The U.S. actually recorded a trade surplus in IT in 2011, partly as the result of international trade agreements, according to the TechAmerica Foundation.The value of U.S. exports in technology goods and services combined amounted to US$501 billion in 2011, versus imports valued at $496 billion, for a surplus of $5 billion. The trade status was based on the most recent year for tabulating all components involved in such trade.Those components include IT goods, IT services provided via cross-border trade with Mexico and Canada, and IT services arranged through foreign affiliates around the globe. Exports of goods have remained strong, moving from $198 billion in 2011, to $203 billion in 2012 and $205 billion in 2013.”The largest destinations for tech goods go to our closest trading partners, Mexico and Canada, which is a testament to the importance of free trade agreements to the American technology industry,” said Burak Guvensoylar, manager of government affairs at TechAmerica. “As the U.S. continues to negotiate robust 21st century free trade agreements, such as the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),… Read full this story
- Furious EU chief lashes out at UK in new trade deal row ‘UK chose to leave!’
- Ukraine-Russia war live updates: Russian forces pushed back east of Kyiv
- Live updates: Russia, Ukraine trade naval mines accusations
- The Hill's Morning Report: Can Ukraine and Russia make a cease-fire deal?
- Malaysia's digital challenges
- Indonesia poised to become global players in halal industry
- Ukraine: Mariupol rejects surrender, Kyiv hit by shelling — as it happened
- Ukraine-Russia war live updates: Biden meets with NATO allies as war hits one-month mark
- BFSI top news: Budget Session, Crypto.. what happened this week
- Don't capitulate! 'Insane' EU plot to 'pulverise' UK– PM told to tear up deal
- Germany defends arms deliveries to Ukraine — live updates
- Ukraine: Russian strikes wound several in Lviv — live updates
 Thomas L. Friedman Reporting ~ Does Europe Hate us?$6.41 | Don't Push Us When We're Hot check it now at Amazon |  Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time$13.58 |  Globalization and America's Trade Agreements$43.65 |  At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?$9.78 |  Foreign Exchange Operations: Master Trading Agreements, Settlement, and Collateral5.0★ / $66.09 |  Latin American Trade Agreements5.0★ / check it now at Amazon |  Latin American and Caribbean Trade Agreements$224.15 |  Development of the German Ground Attack Arm and Principles Governing its Operations up to the End of 1944$14.75 | Votes, Vetoes, and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements check it now at Amazon | No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement check it now at Amazon | Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time [Hardcover] check it now at Amazon |  The Easiest Way to Quit Smoking And You Can do it Without Gaining Weight$4.8 |  Cliffs I: How and Why America's Billionaires and the Republican/Libertarian/Tea Party Are Pushing Us Over (Volume 1)$17.3 | The Power of Family Unity: How to Use it to Gain Economical Freedom for Generations check it now at Amazon |  Determinants of Corporate Governance Internet Reporting$79 |  The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Quest for a Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement$57.99 | Tribal MICS IT: Tribal IT Governance, IT Gaming, and Standards, IT Scorecard Assessment, Templates, and Tools. (Volume 1) check it now at Amazon |  Intellectual Property Enforcement: A Commentary on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) (Elgar Commentaries)$5.97 |  The 5 Unanswered Questions About 9/11: What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us$35.64 |  The United States: Singapore Free Trade Agreement Highlights and Insights$35.2 |  Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time [Abridged 5-CD Set] (AUDIO CD/AUDIO BOOK)$22.5 | The Capacity to Govern: A Report to the Club of Rome check it now at Amazon |  Intranet Governance Survey Report 2010 (includes governance samples) check it now at Amazon | Losing It -- And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time check it now at Amazon | On Civil Government: Its Origin, Mission and Destiny and the Christian's Relation to It check it now at Amazon |  Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies and Priorities (Institute for International Economics Special Report)$31.95 |  Sons of Libery If we lie to the Government it's a felony. T-Shirt. Made in USA check it now at Amazon |  Europe, Canada and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era)$59.95 |  Fidget Toys Trading Bubble Push - Pop It Trade Master DIY Ouch 3D$4.99 |
GOVERNMENT IT REPORT Trade Agreements Push US IT Export Gains have 723 words, post on www.ecommercetimes.com at August 18, 2014. This is cached page on Smart Prices. If you want remove this page, please contact us.