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Exports:
$12.44 trillion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports:
$12.09 trillion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

That's a well-known disparity in the accounting. Can you believe it?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 10:42:53 AM EST
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Seriously, since so few tax exports, and so many tax imports, its almost axiomatic that more effort will go into hiding imports from the authorities than into hiding exports.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 03:25:54 PM EST
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Seems we annually export goods valued at $350 billion to space aliens.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon Jul 30th, 2007 at 06:08:13 PM EST
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