Germany is the largest exporter of real goods, and the US and China export about the same amount of real goods: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/</a> 2007/04/the_state_of_trade.html [bbc.co.uk] (Much of the reason for this is that politically stable countries with excellent infrastructure are good places to build $500 million facto