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    US exporter numbers fall in 2017, but still sold US$1.3 trillion in goods

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    THE number of US exporters shrunk by 3,146 fewer in 2017, compared with the 287,314 identified US exporters in 2016, according to the US Census Bureau's Profile of US Exporting Companies for 2017.

    The 284,168 US exporters identified in 2017 accounted for US$1.292 trillion total exports of goods, compared with US exporters accounting for $1.29 trillion total exports of goods in 2016.

    Of identified 2017 exporters, 97.5 per cent were small and medium-sized exporters (SMEs) that accounted for $461.3 billion in total US exports of goods in 2017, $32.1 billion more than they accounted for in 2016, reported American Shipper.

    Some 33 per cent of 2017 SMEs were part of the wholesale sector, while 25 per cent of them were part of the manufacturing sector.