Author: Americans for the Arts

Publication Year: 2017

Media Type: Infographic

Summary:

The arts have outperformed the overall United States Balance of Trade, increasing its surplus tenfold from 2006 to 2013, while the United States goods and services trade as a whole has registered a deficit every year over the same period. 

Abstract:

The United States has exported more arts and cultural goods and services than it imported since 2006, including during the Great Recession. In 2013, the arts netted a $24.1-billion-dollar trade surplus.

Arts & Intersections: Economic Development

Categories: Advocacy, Economic Impact, Federal, International