Sample eCommerce Business Plan

 eGrocery Business Plan  Page 14 © BPlanExperts.com Economy of the United States Rank 1st (nominal) / 1st (PPP) Currency United States Dollar (USD) Fiscal year October 1 – September 30 Statistics GDP $14.660 trillion (2010) (nominal; 1st) $14.660 trillion (2010) (PPP; 1st) GDP growth 2.9% (2010) GDP per capita $46,442 (2009)(nominal;17th) $46,442 (2009) (PPP; 6th) GDP by sector agriculture: (1.2%), industry: (21.9%), services: (76.9%) (2009 est.) Inflation (CPI) 1.1% (November 09-10) Population below poverty line 14.3% (2009) Gini index 45 (List of countries) Labor force 154.5 million (includes unemployed) (2009 est.) Labor force by occupation farming, forestry, and fishing: 0.7% manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts: 20.3% managerial, professional, and technical: 37.3% sales and office: 24.2% other services: 17.6% note: figures exclude the unemployed (2009) Unemployment 9.0% (Jan 2011) Main industries petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, creative industries, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining, defense Ease of Doing Business Rank 5th External Exports $1.280 trillion f.o.b (2010) Export goods agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2009) Main export partners Canada, 13.2%; Mexico, 8.3%; China, 4.3%; Japan, 3.3%. (2009) Imports $1.948 trillion c.i.f. (2010) Import goods agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4% (computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery), consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys) (2009) Main import partners China, 15.4%; Canada, 11.6%; Mexico, 9.1%; Japan, 4.9%; Germany, 3.7%. (2009) FDI stock $2.398 trillion (31 December 2009 est.) Gross external debt $14.39 trillion (30 Sept 2010) Public finances Public debt $14 trillion (Jan 2011) 93% of GDP Revenues $2.162 trillion (2010) Expenses $3.456 trillion (2010) Economic aid ODA $19 billion, 0.2% of GDP (2004) Main data source: CIA World Fact Book All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars To help stabilize financial markets, the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and other industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover.