Highlights

In 2007:

• the number of establishments that reported domestic exports fell from 48,305 in 2006 to 45,260 establishments in 2007, a decrease of 6.3% (Table 1-1);
• the value of exports of these establishments was $413.7 billion, up 2.3% from 2006 (Table 2-1);
• 67.3% of all exporters are accounted for in two sectors: the manufacturing sector represents 44.9% of all exporters while the wholesale trade sector accounts for 22.3%. In terms of their total value of exports, the manufacturing sector exported $243.4 billion and wholesale trade $52.9 billion. These two sectors accounted for 71.6% or $296.3 billion of the total value exported in 2007 (Table 1-1 and Table 2-1);
• 36,814 establishments exported merchandise to the United States, a decrease of  7.1% from 2006 (Table 3-2);
• the value of domestic exports to the United States was $327.5 billion, a slight decrease of 0.8% from 2006 while the value of exports to Non-U.S. countries increased 16.2% from 2006 (Table 4-2 and Table 4-3);
• 72.6% of exporting establishments had exports of less than $1 million; these establishments accounted for 1.5% of the total value of exports (Table 5 and Table 6);
• just 1.6% of exporting establishments had more than 200 employees and exports of over $25 million, but these establishments accounted for 41.1% of the value of exports (Table 7 and Table 8);
• just over 2000 establishments began exporting in 2007, these new exporters accounted for 3.8% of all exporters; the value of exports from these new exporters was $3.1 billion.