Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods

Andrew Bernard, J. Jensen () and Peter Schott

No WP05-10, Working Paper Series from Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract: This paper provides an integrated view of globally engaged US firms by exploring a newly developed dataset that links US international trade transactions to longitudinal data on US enterprises. These data permit examination of a number of new dimensions of firm activity, including how many products firms trade, how many countries firms trade with, the characteristics of those countries, the concentration of trade across firms, whether firms transact at arm’s length or with related parties, and whether firms import as well as export. Firms that trade goods play an important role in the United States, employing more than a third of the US workforce. We find that the most globally engaged US firms, i.e. those that both export to and import from related parties, dominate US trade flows and employment at trading firms. We also find that firms that begin trading between 1993 and 2000 experience especially rapid employment growth and are a major force in overall job creation.

Keywords: exporters; importers; multinationals; related-party trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-09
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