This report, known as the FT900, is published monthly by the Foreign Trade Division of the Bureau of the Census. It includes information about US imports and exports and other foreign trade statistics. The July 1999 issue reports that "total July exports of $79.0 billion and imports of $104.2 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $25.2 billion, $0.6 billion more than the deficit of...

Providing graphic and statistical representation of weekly, monthly, and yearly sales, the US Export Sales Reports track primary American commodities marketed abroad, including wheat, cotton, feed grains, oilseeds, rice, beef, and hides and skins. Especially from a lay person's perspective, the level of detail of each report is astonishingly minute and analytical. For instance, for wheat and...