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1 Country Profile United States of America

2 Introduction Location Capital Area Bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico Washington, DC 9,833,517 sq. km Population 323,995,528 (July 2016 est.) 79.96% Ethnic Groups 12.85% 4.43% 0.97% 0.00% 1.61% White Black Asian Amerindian & Alaska Native Native Two or More Hawaiian & Races Other Pacific Island 46.50% Religion 20.80% 22.80% 1.60% 0.80% 0.90% 1.90% 0.90% 0.70% 0.70% 1.80%

3 Languages English 79.2% Asian & Pacific Island 3.3% Other Indo- European 3.8% Spanish 12.9% Others 0.9% GDP (official exchange rate): Major economic indicators $18.56 trillion (2016 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 1.6% (2016 est.) GDP - per capita (PPP): Gross national saving: GDP - composition, by sector of origin: Taxes and other revenues: Public debt: Inflation rate (consumer prices): Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: Agriculture - products: Industries: $57,300 (2016 est.) 17.6% of GDP (2016 est.) Agriculture: 1.1% Industry: 19.4% Services: 79.5% (2016 est.) 18.1% of GDP 73.8% of GDP (2016 est.) 1.3% (2016 est.) $117.6 billion (31 December 2015 est.) wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish; forest products highly diversified, world leading, high-technology innovator, second-largest industrial output in the world; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining

4 Trade Export (Value: $1.471 trillion (2016 est.) Export- partners: Canada 18.6%, Mexico 15.7%, China 7.7%, Japan 4.2% (2015) Export- commodities: agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% Imports (Value: $2.205 trillion (2016 est.) Import- partners: China 21.5%, Canada 13.2%, Mexico 13.2%, Japan 5.9%, Germany 5.5% (2015) Imports- commodities: agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, (2008 est.)

5 Bilateral Trade with Pakistan Product code Product label Pakistan's Exports to USA (US$ Thousand) Value in 2014 Value in 2015 'TOTAL All products 3,646, ,661, '63 Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags 1,388, ,404, '61 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted 1,071, ,026, '62 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories, not knitted or crocheted 458, , Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel '42 goods, handbags and similar containers; articles , , '52 Cotton 118, , '90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical... 90, , '57 Carpets and other textile floor coverings 56, , '94 Furniture; bedding, mattresses, mattress supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings;... 44, , '17 Sugars and sugar confectionery 28, , '10 Cereals 30, , '39 Plastics and articles thereof 22, , '95 Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof 21, , '73 Articles of iron or steel 19, , '82 Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal 23, , '25 Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials, lime and cement 20, , '09 Coffee, tea, mate and spices 12, , '55 Man-made staple fibres 11, , '85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television... 1, , '13 Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts 18, , '96 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 10, , '84 Machinery, mechanical appliances, nuclear reactors, boilers; parts thereof 15, ,452.00

6 Product code Product label Pakistan's imports from USA (US$ Thousand) Value in 2014 Value in 2015 'TOTAL All products 1,799, ,916, '84 Machinery, mechanical appliances, nuclear reactors, boilers; parts thereof 410, , '72 Iron and steel 178, , '88 Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof 99, , '12 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal... 11, , '90 Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical , , '85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television , , '63 Other made-up textile articles; sets; worn clothing and worn textile articles; rags 71, , '52 Cotton 75, , '38 Miscellaneous chemical products 59, , '30 Pharmaceutical products 40, , '04 Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere... 16, , '29 Organic chemicals 39, , '10 Cereals 29, , '39 Plastics and articles thereof 33, , '96 Miscellaneous manufactured articles 41, , '23 Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder 3, , '44 Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal 25, , '48 Paper and paperboard; articles of paper pulp, of paper or of paperboard 22, , Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulosic '47 material; recovered (waste and scrap) paper or... 19, , Tools, implements, cutlery, spoons and '82 forks, of base metal; parts thereof of base metal 24, , '73 Articles of iron or steel 34, ,692.00

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