of what the u.s. is exporting. that s things like airplanes, car parts, computers, telecommunications equipment, all that kind of stuff. industrial supplies take about 28.6%. chemicals, cleaning materials. consumer goods 15%. cars, medicine. and then agricultural products help round that out, just under 10%. soybeans, fruit, corn, that kind of thing. so we re still sending out that as well. but there s still a lot of manufacturing in that as well. yeah, a lot. how many jobs tied to u.s. exports. jobs. exports of manufactured goods support more than 6.8 million jobs as of 2008. so a lot of times we have to wait for the 2009 figures to come in but we re looking at just under seven million jobs tied to exports of manufactured goods. that s about one in 17 private sector jobs if you flush it out. so maybe the president was speaking aspirationally we re going to be number one soon. i think politicians sometimes