You probably need to consider the fact that a large portion of Germany's exports are most likely to other European countries and are therefore more like domestic sales then exports. Think of the number of goods manufactured in California and shipped to New York. That's kind of similar to when Germany ships things to France.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marlin @ Apr 12 2007, 12:43 PM) [snapback]422087[/snapback]</div> Good point. http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/gnp.html
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Marlin @ Apr 12 2007, 01:43 PM) [snapback]422087[/snapback]</div> so according this, the EU must be surpassing the US exports 20 times or more
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(maggieddd @ Apr 12 2007, 06:40 PM) [snapback]422247[/snapback]</div> I think the point Marlin was making was goods from germany to france is considered an export while goods from california to nevada isn't. Even though the germany and france are different countries they(the EU) act as singular trading entity similar to the US as a whole. If you could count all interstate movement of goods in America as 'exports' then we'd beat germany.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(burritos @ Apr 12 2007, 08:39 PM) [snapback]422281[/snapback]</div> right, so if you consider the movement of goods from Germany to France the same as California to New York then more fair comparison would be the entire EU vs the US not just Germany vs US.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(maggieddd @ Apr 12 2007, 07:59 PM) [snapback]422296[/snapback]</div> Yup. That's why I posted the GNP of the top nations. I'm not sure if it lists all the EU nations and its GNPs. If you wanted to do a comparison between the US and the EU GNP totals.
China is going to be iffy for a while. They're under a lot of scrutiny now over their food exports. They have quality problems in other areas.
unfortunately, we don't MAKE a lot of goods here anymore... factories have all moved south or to the "orient"
