US plastics industry maintains trade surplus in 2016

摘要

The U.S. plastics industry continued to have a trade surplus in 2016, even though the size of that surplus declined from the previous year.The industry's $4.7 billion surplus for 2016 was down from the $7.1 billion surplus posted in 2015, according to the 2017 Global Trends report published by the Plastics Industry Association. As in previous years, the resin sector accounted for the entirety of the U.S. industry's trade surplus.