NEWS RELEASE: BEA Announcement: BEA Releases New and Expanded Data on Global Value Chains | Current release: May 21, 2026

BEA Announcement: BEA Releases New and Expanded Data on Global Value Chains SUITLAND, Md. — BEA today released new and expanded statistics on the role of global value chains in the U.S. economy.  The release includes new statistics on global value chains for 2024 and updated statistics for 2007-2023. The new global value chains statistics show the mix of domestic and foreign content used in the production of goods and services in the United States, aiding analysis of increasingly complicated supply chains.  This release marks an expansion of global value chain statistics (also called trade in value added) to include each of the major components of GDP: consumer spending, investment, government spending, and exports. The statistics, for example, provide information on consumer purchases of domestically produced items versus imported items. Previously, these statistics were available just for U.S. exports.   BEA's tool to help access these data and create custom tables was renamed the Global Value Chain Analyzer with this release.

Global Value Chains

BEA is developing data to provide a more complete and nuanced view of U.S. trade to analyze the evolving structure of international trade. The data help analyze global value chains – increasingly complicated supply chains that link many countries together to produce a good or service.

For example, an airliner exported from the United States might combine U.S.-made parts with wings from Japan, passenger doors from France, landing gear from England, and other components built elsewhere. Likewise, U.S. industries provide goods and services used in other countries’ exports.

In the first milestone of this ongoing project, BEA released experimental data on trade in value added (TiVA) in December 2021. The data were expanded in 2023 to show additional breakdowns by industry and international region.

In May 2026, BEA launched an updated Global Value Chain Analyzer tool with a full set of final demand categories, expanding on the previous export-oriented data. The tool enables users to generate custom tables to explore all categories of final demand, including the mix of domestic value added and imports of intermediate and final products used to meet U.S. demand for goods and services.

These data tables can be used to answer questions such as: What are the domestic and imported inputs used to create a U.S. industry’s exports? How do U.S. industries contribute to different global value chains? What regions purchased the domestic value added of a specific commodity from the U.S?

Current release: May 21, 2026

Note: To use the Global Value Chain Analyzer, select Interactive Data: Global Value Chain Analyzer in the Data & Documentation section.

Data & Documentation

• Interactive Data: Global Value Chain Analyzer
• User Guide: BEA’s National Trade in Value Added Dataset and the GVC Analyzer PDF
• Selected and Supporting Detail Tables
• Blog: A Closer Look at the Mix of Global and Domestic Content in U.S. Exports March 2023
• Technical Document: Methodology for Preparing National Trade in Value Added (TiVA) Statistics for BEA’s Global Value Chain Analyzer Tool PDF
• Archive

Background Material

 

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