• China overtook Mexico as the United States’s major trading partner in electronics.

• Continued movement of production to low-cost producing countries drove trade in many electronic product categories.

• In 2003, Ireland became the leading supplier of medical equipment to the United States.

• U.S. trade deficit: Increased by $9.2 billion (10 percent) to $98.0 billion

• U.S. exports: Increased by $411 million (0.3 percent) to $140.8 billion

• U.S. imports: Increased by $9.6 billion (4 percent) to $238.8 billion

• Computers, peripherals, and parts, semiconductors and integrated circuits, telephone and telegraph apparatus, television receivers and video monitors, and medical goods exhibited the largest shifts

USITC PUBLICATIONS

Industry Trade and Technology Review

Global Trends in the Information Technology Outsourcing Services Market

Global Copyright Protection and the Challenge of Digital Piracy

ADDITIONAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

Federal Communications Commission

U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration

Information and Telecommunications Technologies

Medical and Dental Equipment

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Medical Device Reporting

National Telecommunications and Information Administration