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BY

RAHUL SINGH7084

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USA is worlds third largest country in size and nearly third largest interms of

population

Facts & Figures President: Barack H. ObamaVice President: Joseph BidenLand area: 3,539,225 sq mi (9,166,601 sq km); total area: 3,718,691 sq mi (9,631,420 sqkm)Population (2012 est.): 313,847,465 (growth rate: 0.899%); birth rate: 13.68/1000; infantmortality rate: 5.9/1000; life expectancy: 78.49; density per sq mi: 85Capital (2010 est.). Washington, DC, 601,723Largest cities (2010 est.): New York, 8,175,133; Los Angeles, 3,792,621; Chicago,2,695,598; Houston, 2,099,451; Philadelphia, 1,526,006; Phoenix, 1,445,632; San Antonio,1,327,407; San Diego, 1,307,402; Dallas, 1,197,816; San Jose, 945,942

Monetary unit: dollar

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Income DistributionA high portion of annual income inequality is due todifferences in:

age,education,family size,marital status,number of earners in the family, and,time worked.

Young, inexperienced workers, students, single-parentfamilies, and retirees are over-represented among those withlow incomes

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Bottom 20%of income

recipients

9.0

32.044.024.0

34.058.0

13.079.0

8.0

3.0Percent with less than high school Percent with college degree or more

under 35 35 - 6465 and over

Education of householder

49.051.0

7.093.0 Married-couple family (% of total)

Single-parent family (% of total)

2.9 3.4

Source: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Money Income in the United States: 2001 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office 2002)

Top 20%of incomerecipients

Age of householder (percent distribution)

Family status

Persons per family0.8 2.2Earners per family

10.0 25.0% of total hours worked

supplied by group

13.0 63.0% of married couple families

in which wife works full-time

High and Low Income Families, 2001

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RELIGION

Protestant 51.3%, RomanCatholic 24%, Mormon 2%,Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%,other 10%, none 10% (2002est.)

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UNITED STATES 1. Direct eye contact in social and business settings is very important. Gaps inconversation are uncomfortable. While dining, left hand is placed in lap, and righthand is used to eat with. Wrists are permitted on the table (while at a meal), butelbows are not.2. By either raising the index finger or the hand (facing palm up) or waggling thefinger(s) back toward the body means to beckon for someone.4. Insulting gestures are the middle finger trust and forearm jerk.5. Lines are treated with respect.6. Extending the arm, palm facing down and waving the hand up a down at the wrist

joint. A variation is to raise the arm, palm outward, and move the whole arm and hand back and forth.7. It is proper to use a firm handshake with direct eye contact.8. Women may briefly hug other women, and men may quickly kiss the cheek of awoman

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Indian Education stats American Education stats

Adjusted savings: educationexpenditure > % of GNI

3.99 % of GNIRanked 88th in 2005

4.79 % of GNIRanked 59th in 2005. 20%more than India

Average years of schooling ofadults

5.1Ranked 65th.

12Ranked 1st. 135% more thanIndia

Duration of compulsory

education

8 years

Ranked 116th.

12 years

Ranked 12th. 50% more thanIndia

Duration of education >Primary level

6Ranked 96th.

6Ranked 83rd.

Duration of education >Secondary level

5Ranked 164th.

6Ranked 109th. 20%more than India

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Indian Education stats American Educationstats

Education enrolment bylevel > Tertiary level

11,295,041Ranked 3rd in 2002.

16,611,711Ranked 1st in 2002. 47%more than India

Education spending (%of GDP)

4.1%Ranked 82nd.

5.7%Ranked 39th. 39%

more than India

Education spending (%of total governmentexpenditure)

12.7%Ranked 68th.

17.1%Ranked 38th. 35%more than India

Public spending oneducation, total > % ofgovernment expenditure

10.74 %Ranked 57th in 2003. 15.25 %Ranked 32nd in2003. 42% more thanIndia

Universities > Top 1002Ranked 14th.

31Ranked 1st. 15 timesmore than India

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Business Dress

In general, people in the East dress moreformally, while people in the West areknown for being a bit more casual.Executives usually dress formallyregardless of which part of the country they

are in.Casual Friday is common in manycompanies. High technology companiesoften wear casual clothes every day.For an initial meeting, dressingconservatively is always in good taste.Women can wear business suits, dresses or

pantsuits. Men should wear a business suitunless you know the firm to be quitecasual.

Greetings

The hand shake is the common greeting.Handshakes are firm, brief and confident.Maintain eye contact during the greeting.In most situations, you can begin calling

people by their first names.Most people will insist that you call them

by their nickname, if they have one.In formal circumstances, you may want touse titles and surnames as a courtesy untilyou are invited to move to a first name

basis, which will happen quickly.

Business cards are exchanged withoutformal ritual.It is quite common for the recipient to putyour card in their wallet, which may thengo in the back pocket of their trousers. This

is not an insult.

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Business Meetings

Arrive on time for meetings since time and punctuality are soimportant to Americans.In the Northeast and Midwest, people are extremely punctual and

view it as a sign of disrespect for someone to be late for ameeting or appointment.In the Southern and Western states, people may be a little morerelaxed, but to be safe, always arrive on time, although you may

have to wait a little before your meeting begins.

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TYPE OF GOVERNMENT IN UNITEDSTATES

Federal republic.The president is elected for a four-year term and may bereelected only once.The bicameral Congress consists of the 100-member Senate,

elected to a six-year term with one-third of the seats becomingvacant every two years, and the 435-member House of Representatives, elected every two years.The minimum voting age is 18

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2002 Bali bombings > Deaths 7

Global Terrorism Indicator 3

Terrorist Acts > 1968-2006 > Deaths toincidences ratio

5.888686131 Deaths per act

Terrorist Acts > 2000-2006 > Fatalities 2,990

Terrorist Acts > 2000-2006 > Incidences 98

Terrorist Acts > 2000-2006 > Injuries 2,386

Victims of the September 11th 2001

attacks

2,902

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The US Dollar is the currency of United States. Their currency rankings show that the most popular United States Dollar exchange rate is the EUR to USD rate. The currency code for Dollars is USD, and the currency symbol is $.

USD ProfileInflation: 2.7%Nicknames: greenback, buck, green, dough, smacker, bones, dead presidents, scrillas, paper Coins: Freq Used: 1, 5, 10, 25Rarely Used: $1, 50Banknotes: Freq Used: $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100Rarely Used: $2Central Bank: Federal Reserve Bank

Website: http://www.federalreserve.gov

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This currency chart displays the value of the US Dollar inrelation to INR1 Indian rupee (USD/INR) over a 2-year

period. To view the currency graph over different time period .

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The main goal of trade agreements is to reduce barriers to U.S.exports, and protect U.S. interests and enhance the rule of law inthe FTA partner country.

The reduction of trade barriers and the creation of a more stableand transparent trading and investment environment make it easier and cheaper for U.S. companies to export their products andservices to trading partner markets.

Forty-one percent of U.S. goods exports went to FTA partner countries in 2010, with exports to those countries growing at afaster rate than exports to the rest of the world from 2009 to 2010,23% vs. 20%.

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How can U.S. companies identify tariffs on exports to

FTA partner countries?

The FTA Tariff Tool can help to determine the tariff, or

tax at the border, that certain foreign countries will collectwhen a U.S. exported product enters the country. Andalso look up the tariff rate for a given product today, as

well as identify when in the future the tariff rate will godown further or be eliminated altogether.

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The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the

establishment of the United States over 200 years ago. Since then, a centralgoal of U.S. foreign policy has been the promotion of respect for humanrights, as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . TheUnited States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the

peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption,strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises.The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) applies threekey principles to its work on human rights:

First , DRL strives to learn the truth and state the facts in all of its humanrights investigationsSecond , DRL takes consistent positions concerning past, present, and futureabusesThird , DRL forges and maintains partnerships with organizations,

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Top 5 imports -1.Chemical fertilizers $3.1 billion

2. Civilian aircraft $1.7 billion 3. Diamonds $1.7 billion 4. Telecommunications $652.1 million 5. Other petroleum products $581 million

Top 5 exports

29.8%production machinery

29.5%non-auto consumer goods12.4%motor vehicles and parts9.3% food, feed and beverages8.3%; aircraft and parts,

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Main export partners

Canada, 21.4%; Mexico, 11.7%;

China, 5.6%;Japan, 5.4%;Germany, 4.3%;

Main import partners

China, 16.9%;Canada, 15.7%;Mexico, 10.6%; Japan, 7.4%; Germany, 7.4%.

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Topography

The northern New England coast is rocky, along the rest of the eastern seaboard the

Atlantic Coastal Plain rises gradually from the shoreline. Narrow in the north, the plain widens to about 320 km (200 mi) in the south and inGeorgia merges with the Gulf Coastal Plain that borders the Gulf of Mexico andextends through Mexico as far as the Yucatn.West of the Atlantic Coastal Plain is the Piedmont Plateau, bounded by theAppalachian Mountains.

The Appalachians, which extend from southwest Maine into central Alabama withspecial names in some areas are old mountains, largely eroded away, with roundedcontours and forested, as a rule, to the top.Few of their summits rise much above 1,100 m (3,500 ft), although the highest, Mt.Mitchell in North Carolina, reaches 2,037 m (6,684 ft).

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Some areas of the country have aging or over-burdenedroadways and utility systems, but the nationwide infrastructure iscapable of supporting the needs of the economy.

Roadways connect all 50 states and 90 percent of all major cities and towns are serviced by expressways.

The nation has 6,348,277 kilometers (3,944,819 miles) of roadways, including 3,732,757 kilometers (2,319,535 miles)of paved roads.

The United States also has an excellent telecommunicationssystemThere are 14,572 airports in the United States, although only5,174 have paved runways

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