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Share of Imports and Commodities in Consumption and Investment in the United States

In: UNCOVERING VALUE ADDED IN TRADE New Approaches to Analyzing Global Value Chains

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  • Galina Hale
  • Bart Hobijn

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We use input–output data to compute the share of imports and commodities in personal consumption and fixed investment in the United States (US). We show that for the US, a large high-income economy, the shares of local content and of non-commodity content are rather small in categories that are not directly related to commodities or imported goods. Overall, about 82% of expenditures by US consumers go to goods that are made entirely domestically and from domestic imports. Our measures represent an upper bound on the computed shares of imports from a specific region, because we use a conventional, rather than a value added, measure of trade flows.

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  • Galina Hale & Bart Hobijn, 2015. "Share of Imports and Commodities in Consumption and Investment in the United States," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Yuqing Xing (ed.), UNCOVERING VALUE ADDED IN TRADE New Approaches to Analyzing Global Value Chains, chapter 6, pages 101-112, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814656368_0006
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