Overview
Agricultural trade multipliers provide estimates of employment and/or output effects of trade in farm and food products on the U.S. economy. These effects, when expressed as multipliers, reflect the amount of economic activity and/or jobs generated by agricultural exports.
Users of this data system have two options through which to display multipliers:
- As predefined ERS estimates for the most
recent calendar year available or
- As estimates generated by an interactive
calculator that enables users to select their
own basket of exports from the list of predefined
estimates and/or apply a new set of trade margins
to the commodity or basket of goods.
Data
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ERS Estimates
ERS estimates agricultural trade multipliers
for 69 agriculturally based commodities
or combinations of agriculture, food processing,
tobacco, and fiber and textile products at
either the producer (farm or manufacturer)
or port stage of export for the most recent
year of data available. |
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| Updated September 2007 |
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Calculator
Users can create their own multipliers by
selecting their own basket of exports and/or
changing some of the margins
in the ERS estimates to reflect specific or
new information about producer value,
transportation costs, and wholesale and
retail trade margins.
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| Updated September 2007 |
Related Links
ERS publishes information on the Effects
of Trade on the U.S. Economy in the U.S. Agricultural Trade Update.
U.S. Agricultural Trade Briefing Room offers access to the trade analyses and projections available from ERS, focusing primarily on U.S. agricultural trade.
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