Recent Trends in Chemicals and Allied Products (SIC 28) statistics


														Percent Change			Percent Change					Percent Change			Compound
																									rate,
Item	Unit	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997 /1	1998 /1	87-88	89-89	89-90	90-91	91-92	92-93	93-94	94-95	95-96	96-97	97-98	89-97


INDUSTRY DATA

Value of shipments ²	Mil. dol	229,546	261,238	283,196	292,803	298,544	305,420	314,907	333,905	361,161	367,442	(NA)	(NA)	13.8	8.4	3.4	2.0	2.3	3.1	6.0	8.2	1.7	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Value of shipments (1992 dollars)	Mil. dol	277,408	291,155	298,895	305,250	302,044	305,420	307,625	317,588	323,024	325,552	(NA)	(NA)	5.0	2.7	2.1	-1.1	1.1	0.7	3.2	1.7	0.8	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Total employment	1,000	814.2	835.1	867.4	868.9	867.2	848.6	838.4	823.1	838.9	824.5	(NA)	(NA)	2.6	3.9	0.2	-0.2	-2.1	-1.2	-1.8	1.9	-1.7	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Production workers	1,000	462.9	476.9	493.4	489.3	484.3	479.3	473.6	471.7	487.0	476.8	(NA)	(NA)	3.0	3.5	-0.8	-1.0	-1.0	-1.2	-0.4	3.2	-2.1	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Average hourly earnings	Dollar	13.04	13.21	13.80	14.37	14.94	15.27	15.62	16.25	16.56	17.22	(NA)	(NA)	1.4	4.4	4.2	3.9	2.2	2.3	4.0	1.9	4.0	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Capital expenditures	Mil. dol	8,711	11,006	13,775	15,645	16,599	16,381	15,690	15,411	17,557	20,041	(NA)	(NA)	26.3	25.2	13.6	6.1	-1.3	-4.2	-1.8	13.9	14.2	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)

PRODUCT DATA

Value of shipments ³	Mil. dol	214,618	244,515	260,649	268,505	268,935	282,242	292,416	309,592	337,103	343,338	(NA)	(NA)	13.9	6.6	3.0	0.2	4.9	3.6	5.9	8.9	1.8	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Value of shipments (1992 dollars)	Mil. dol	257,801	270,155	272,967	278,311	271,320	282,242	285,763	294,588	300,900	304,212	(NA)	(NA)	4.8	1.0	2.0	-2.5	4.0	1.2	3.1	2.1	1.1	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)

TRADE DATA ⁴

Value of imports	Mil. dol	(NA)	(NA)	20,588	22,247	23,459	26,363	27,751	32,387	39,247	44,706	50,893	54,625	(NA)	(NA)	8.1	5.4	12.4	5.3	16.7	21.2	13.9	13.8	7.3	12.0
Value of exports	Mil. dol	(NA)	(NA)	36,461	38,567	42,288	42,786	43,303	49,521	58,584	59,263	66,019	64,724	(NA)	(NA)	5.8	9.6	1.2	1.2	14.4	18.3	1.2	11.4	-2.0	7.7

NA Not available. X Not applicable.
1 Estimate, except exports and imports.
2 Value of all products and services sold by establishments in the chemicals and allied products industry.
3 Value of products classified in the chemical and allied product industry produced by all industries.
4 Trade data corresponds to SITC 5 (Standard International TradeClassification, rev. 3) rather than SIC 28.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, International Trade Administration (ITA),data from U.S. Industry Trade & Outlook 2000 and estimates by ITA.

http://www.ita.doc.gov/TSFrameset.html

https://allcountries.org/uscensus/1424_recent_trends_in_chemicals_and_allied.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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1424. Recent Trends in Chemicals and Allied Products (SIC 28)