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U.S. exports to China in November ($7.3 billion) were a record high, beating the record set last month ($6.9 billion) by $469 million. While the last two months have been record highs the year-to-date exports to China ($61.2 billion) are still down from last year ($64.6 billion). Check back next month to see if December exports manage to climb high enough to make the 2009 figures beat 2008! Below are a few commodities driving the export figures:
You can find more commodity by country detail our website.
Make sure to check out the monthly Press Highlights and Congressional Highlights that are up on our website for more interesting facts on the balance, imports and exports for the current month.
The sheer amount and frequency of trade data can make it overwhelming to casual data users, but there are a lot of interesting facts like these in the data every month. We hope to continue bringing them to you, and hope to inspire you to dig though the data to find something that interests you. Feel free to drop a comment with your own interesting data points, or let us know what you would like us to highlight in future posts.
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