[hilux]

56% of Apple's revenue is from outside the US. 38% of Boeing's revenue is from outside the US. 58% of Caterpillar's revenue is from outside the US. (Those are the first three companies I checked.)

If American companies took the attitude "America #1, we don't need foreign customers," I don't think you would like the impact the resulting revenue loss would have on the American economy.

[bdjsiqoocwk]

100% agree, than you.

May I ask, where do you find those numbers? Did you actually go to their earnings reports one by one, or is there an easier way?

[mistrial9]

> on the American economy

looks upward for the trickling down implied here

[triceratops]

Add up the employees those companies employ in America and multiply that by their respective proportion of foreign revenue. That's the trickle-down.

[FrustratedMonky]

But overall total trade deficit is still lopsided correct?

I'm all for increasing exports. What markets are untapped where something could be made in US and exported.

[seanmcdirmid]

Apple doesn’t make much hardware in the USA anymore, so you have to count the software and hardware IP from the actually hardware/finished product, so accounting what percent of value for an iPhone is generated in China/other countries vs the USA. For Boeing it’s slightly easier, but they also have an international supply chain.