Accounting for International Trade in GDP
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is defined as the total expenditure on a country's domestically-produced goods and services. To calculate this, spending on exports (X) is added to consumption (C), investment (I), and government spending (G), as exports represent foreign spending on domestic products. However, the C, I, and G components inherently include spending on both domestic and foreign-produced items. To ensure the final GDP figure only reflects domestic output, spending on imports (M) must be subtracted, thereby removing the value of foreign goods and services from the total expenditure calculation.
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