United States Country Profile

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1 Chapter: General Profile United States Country Profile UNITED STATES Country Profile Politics Economy Trade & Industries General Profile Total area 9,826,675 sq km Population 313,847,465 (July 2012 est.) World Population (in billions) Growth Year per year % Government type Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition Chief of state President Barack H. OBAMA Head of government President Barack H. OBAMA Capital Washington, DC Mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi Climate River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains Language English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) New York-Newark 19.3 million; Los Angeles-Long Beach- Major City Santa Ana million; Chicago million; Miami million; WASHINGTON, D.C. (capital) million (2009) Economy Profile World GDP Real Growth -0.8% 5% 3.6% World GDP (in Trillions) United StatesGDP Real Growth -3.5% 3% 1.5% GDP $15.06 trillion (2011 est.) GDP Per capita $48,100 (2011 est.) 1

2 Chapter: Economy Profile GDP Composition by sector Inflation Exchanges Rates Primary Economy Sector Unemployment Rate agriculture: 1.2% industry: 22.1% services: 76.7% (2011 est.) 3% (2011 est.) 1 US dollar = 100 cents 9.1% (2011 est.) 2

3 Chapter: Ports and Terminals Ports and Terminals International Airports Election results Ministry Name Political parties and leaders United States Economy Characteristics Trade & Investment Policy cargo ports (tonnage): Baton Rouge, Corpus Christi, Houston, Long Beach, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Plaquemines, Tampa, Texas City container ports (TEUs): Los Angeles (7,849,985), Long Beach (6,350,125), New York/New Jersey (5,265,058), Savannah (2,616,126), Oakland (2,236,244), Hampton Roads (2,083,278) (2008) cruise departure ports (passengers): Miami (2,032,000), Port Everglades (1,277,000), Port Canaveral (1,189,000), Seattle (430,000), Long Beach (415,000) (2009) oil terminals: LOOP terminal, Haymark terminal Chicago-O Hare Airport, Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, New Orleans - Louis Armstrong International Airport, New York - John F Kennedy International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, Washington - Ronald Reagan National Airport Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Democratic Party 51, Republican Party 47, independent 2; House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - Democratic Party 192, Republican Party 243 Department Official Name Department of State Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Department of the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner Department of Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta Department of Justice Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. Department of the Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack Department of Commerce Secretary John E. Bryson Department of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun L.S. Donovan Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano Democratic Party [Debbie Wasserman SCHULTZ]; Green Party; Libertarian Party [Mark HINKLE]; Republican Party [Reince PRIEBUS] Limited government, Freedom of Enterprise, Freedom of choice, Profit incentive, Private property, Competition A trade-negotiations agenda that opens markets for the most competitive U.S.-produced goods and services A National Investment Initiative that would coordinate investment policies to create more high-wage, high- 3

4 Chapter: Trade & Investment Policy productivity jobs in the United States A robust and strategic trade enforcement effort that ensures U.S. companies and workers are not harmed by trade agreement violations A greater push to promote U.S. exports through more competitive export financing and a more active U.S. government role in supporting American overseas sales An expanded use of trade to foster development in the world's poorest countries A comprehensive worker adjustment and retraining policy A new deal with Congress to give the president a mandate to negotiate trade-opening agreements with an assurance of timely congressional action 4

5 Chapter: International organization participation International organization participation Trade Opportunities Main Industry Biggest Company ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), ANZUS, APEC, Arctic Council, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, BSEC (observer), CBSS (observer), CD, CE (observer), CERN (observer), CICA (observer), CP, EAPC, EAS, EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-20, G- 5, G-7, G-8, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IGAD (partners), IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUSCO, NAFTA, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS, OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC (observer), SELEC (observer), SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNITAR, UNMIL, UNRWA, UNSC (permanent), UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC areas of energy and power (including electricity, oil, and gas), project finance, health, manufacturing, mining & natural resources, telecommunications and information technology, transportation (including aviation, rail, and ports), and water and the environment (including solid waste). highly diversified, world leading, high-technology innovator, second largest industrial output in world; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining Industry Name of the company Boeing Aerospace & Defence Lockheed Martin General Dynamics Nike Apparel/Accessories VF Ralph Laurent Ford Automotive General Motors Johnson Control Automotive Parts TRW Automotive Holdings Goodyear Cocacola Beverages Pepsico Cocacola Enterprises Amgen Biotech Gilead Sciences Celgene Cisco Communication Equipment Qualcomm Corning Apple Computer Hardware Hewlett Packard Dell IBM Computer Service Google Yahoo Containers & Packaging Ball 5

6 Chapter: Biggest Company Diversified Chemicals Diversified Metal & mining Electric Utilities Electric Equipment electronics Food Processing Heavy Equipment Household Appliances Personal Care Investment Services Iron And Steel Medical Equipment and Supplies Paper & Paper Products Pharmaceuticals Railroads Semiconductors Crown Holdings Rocks Tenn Dow Chemical EI Du Pont De Nemours PPG Inudstries Freeport McMoRan Copper Newmont Mining Peabody Energy Southern co Exelon Next era Energy Emerson Electric WW Grainger Ametek Agilent Technologies Avnet Arrow Electronics Kraft Foods Archer Daniels Midland General Mills Caterpillar Deere & Co Cummins Whirlpoll Procter & Gamble Kimberly Clark Colgate Palmolive Berkshire Hathaway Goldman Sach Group Morgan Stanley Nucor Cliffs Natural Resources US Steel Johnson & Johnson Medtronic Baxter International International Paper Meadwestvaco Pfizer Merck & co Abbott Laboratories Union Pacific CSX Northfolk Southern Intel 6

7 Chapter: Software & Programming Telecommunication Service Tobacco Trading Companies Texas Instrument Applied Materials Microsoft Oracle Symantec At&t Verizon Communication Century Link Philip Moris International Altria Group Reynolds American 7