Draft completed on 21/04/2015.
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Comments Louise Corselli-Nordblad 3/9/2015:
- Fig 1: Title says: "Share of EU-28 and US exports in world exports, total products, 2003 13" => Imports should be added
- Fig 9: Spell out Nace codes in legends with titles
- Fig 13: Could be expressed in Bn euro as Fig 12, easier to read
- "The trade balance is positive since the beginning of the series (2002) meaning the EU’s exports to the United States are greater than the imports. " => the series in Fig 2 start at 2003
- EU-US trade in goods: Should we not add extra to % of EU exports resp. imports?
- "The trade balance for services had fewer surplus throughout the decade compared to the trade balance in goods. " => should we not say "smaller surplus"?
- FDI: Is there not a possibility to get EU-28 data? if not, we should add a footnote on EU-27 saying that data for Croatia is not available.
- FDI: "The EU-27 FDI stocks in the United States increased by 55.8 % from 2004 to 2012, while the United States FDI stocks in the EU-27 grew by 50.0 % over that period" => it looks in the graph as it has doubled (from roughly 800 bn euro to 1600 bn euro)
EN edits. Tim Allen 4 Spetember 2015