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.