It’s funny how many of the Southern states are most reliant on trade with other countries, my home state of Kentucky is especially funny. As we were so very much a state that went for trump who was preaching about tariffs. I can’t wait to put my “I did that (trump)” stickers on gas pumps.
Doesn’t GDP calculation uses Net Export (as in Export – Import)? Or are Import numbers already negative?
How are goods defined as imported in this map? Kentucky is a large hub for e-commerce warehouses, so you have a lot of imports explicitly meant to be exported to a different state
so let me get this right. the map shows BOTH imports and exports? So basically a state could be exporting a ton of it’s good and be a high % on this map, right?
Cars, oil, and bourbon. Got it.
Is this interstate commerce, international commerce, or both?
This map is a little confusing do to how the GPD calculates net exports, being (Export – Import). So one would assume that the lower the number, the less relience.
However, OP doesn’t signify if this is trade between other countries or trade between different states. They also haven’t explaind how the came to use the calculation of (Export + Import).
As it is, the charts is sort of purposly missleading and OP hasn’t added any extra information to inform us on how this chart is supposed to be read and understood. I woldn’t call this beautiful at all.
I’m finding it difficult to interpret this.
AFAICT, being high on this list is bad, because it means that the state’s GDP is dominated by imports and exports, which are about to be hit with tariffs.
I think my biggest take away from this is how well California is doing. I imagine a huge percent of America’s trade with Asia comes through the port of Los Angeles. But imports + exports is still a fairly moderate percent of California’s GDP, which means their domestic businesses are doing well, enough to counter-balance trade. This makes sense since CA has both Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Edit: I guess not all of the trade that goes through the port of LA necessarily gets attributed to California.
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It’s funny how many of the Southern states are most reliant on trade with other countries, my home state of Kentucky is especially funny. As we were so very much a state that went for trump who was preaching about tariffs. I can’t wait to put my “I did that (trump)” stickers on gas pumps.
Doesn’t GDP calculation uses Net Export (as in Export – Import)? Or are Import numbers already negative?
How are goods defined as imported in this map? Kentucky is a large hub for e-commerce warehouses, so you have a lot of imports explicitly meant to be exported to a different state
so let me get this right. the map shows BOTH imports and exports? So basically a state could be exporting a ton of it’s good and be a high % on this map, right?
Cars, oil, and bourbon. Got it.
Is this interstate commerce, international commerce, or both?
This map is a little confusing do to how the GPD calculates net exports, being (Export – Import). So one would assume that the lower the number, the less relience.
However, OP doesn’t signify if this is trade between other countries or trade between different states. They also haven’t explaind how the came to use the calculation of (Export + Import).
As it is, the charts is sort of purposly missleading and OP hasn’t added any extra information to inform us on how this chart is supposed to be read and understood. I woldn’t call this beautiful at all.
I’m finding it difficult to interpret this.
AFAICT, being high on this list is bad, because it means that the state’s GDP is dominated by imports and exports, which are about to be hit with tariffs.
I think my biggest take away from this is how well California is doing. I imagine a huge percent of America’s trade with Asia comes through the port of Los Angeles. But imports + exports is still a fairly moderate percent of California’s GDP, which means their domestic businesses are doing well, enough to counter-balance trade. This makes sense since CA has both Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Edit: I guess not all of the trade that goes through the port of LA necessarily gets attributed to California.
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