A component of final uses that measures goods and services that are produced in the United States and sold to the foreign sector. They are valued at f.a.s. (free alongside ship), which is equivalent to purchasers’ value at the U.S. port of export. The definition of exports in the U.S. international transactions accounts differs slightly from that in the NIPAs and I-O accounts, primarily in the treatment of trade in non-monetary gold and of trade involving U.S. territories. (BEA) Exports of goods and services consist of sales, barter, or gifts or grants, of goods and services from residents to non-residents. (SNA)

Excise duties consist of special taxes levied on specific kinds of goods, typically alcoholic beverages, tobacco and fuels; they may be imposed at any stage of production or distribution and are usually assessed by reference to the weight or strength or quantity of the product. (SNA)

A subset of an Activity, an Event shows the change in production of an industry or commodity, as a dollar value change in final demand.

An economic unit—business or industrial—at a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. Examples include a factory, mill, store, hotel, movie theater, mine, farm, ranch, bank, railroad depot, airline terminal, sales office, warehouse, or central administrative office. One or more establishments make up an enterprise or a company. However, a single establishment may be comprised of subunits, departments, or divisions. In the industry classification systems—SIC and NAICS— the establishment is the basic unit for collecting many types of economic information. (BEA) An establishment is an enterprise, or part of an enterprise, that is situated in a single location and in which only a single (non-ancillary) productive activity is carried out or in which the principal productive activity accounts for most of the value added. (SNA)