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Agricultural trade multipliers provide estimates of employment
and/or output effects
of trade in farm and food products on the U.S. economy.
These effects, when expressed as multipliers, reflect
the amount of economic activity and/or jobs generated
by agricultural exports.
The Agricultural Trade Multiplier (ATM) calculator is
an interactive tool that enables you to select your own
basket of exports and/or apply a new set of margins
to the commodity or basket of goods and calculate new
trade multiplier estimates.
Thus, if you have new information about producer values,
transportation costs, and/or wholesale and retail margins,
you can use the calculator to change the national-level
margins used in the ERS Estimates.
The calculator also enables you to measure the economic
impacts at the producer (farm or manufacturer) stage of
a commodity or product, as well as at the port stage.
Lastly, you can estimate the induced effects of agricultural
exports, that is, jobs and economic activities generated
by a new round of household income and spending associated
with new and expanded trade.
ATM Calculator
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Start Using
Input your own trade scenarios and calculate new trade
multiplier estimates.
This application functions best in Internet Explorer
(version 6.0 or later).
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Instructions
Get detailed information on how to proceed.
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Documentation
Understand how the calculator applies a weighted average
to a “basket” of exports and the implications of changing
margins for port multipliers. |
For additional information on the ERS
Estimates, see the Assumptions
and Methodology underlying
the ERS Input/Output agricultural trade model.
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