1. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

2. CAPITAL: Washington DC TERRITORY: 9,826,675 km 2 POPULATION: 310,666,000 (2010 estimate) NATIONAL LANGUAGE: English Government: Federal Constitutional Presidential Republic President: Barack Obama Vice President: Joe Biden

3. G ROSS N ATIONAL P RODUCT It’s the amount of goods and services produced in a year, in a country. It is the market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a year. It is often positively correlated with the standard of living, alternative measures to GDP for that purpose. United States: 14,119,050 millions od USD by the International Monetary Fund (2009)

4. M EXICO ’ S SOVEREIGN DEBT A week of intense currency crisis stabilized some time after the US President Clinton, in concert with international organizations, granted a loan to the Mexican government. Loans and guarantees to Mexico totaled almost $50 billion, with the following contributions: The United States arranged currency swaps and loan guarantees with a $20 billion total value. The IMF promised an 18 month Stand-by Credit Agreement of around US $17.7 billion. The Bank for International Settlements offered a $10 billion line of credit. The Bank of Canada offered short term swaps with a US dollar value of around one billion. At the end of the crisis, the U.S. actually made a $500 million profit on the loans

5. T HE N ORTH A MERICAN F REE T RADE A GREEMENT The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. In terms of combined purchasing power parity GDP of its members, as of 2007 the trade bloc is the largest in the world and second largest by nominal GDP comparison.

6. The goal of NAFTA was to eliminate barriers of trade and investment between the US, Canada and Mexico. The implementation of NAFTA on January 1, 1994, brought the immediate elimination of tariffs on more than one half of U.S. imports from Mexico and more than one third of U.S. exports to Mexico. Within 10 years of the implementation of the agreement, all US- Mexico tariffs would be eliminated except for some U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico that were to be phased out in 15 years. Most US- Canada trade was already duty free. NAFTA also seeks to eliminate non-tariff trade barriers.

7. PER CAPITA INCOME

8. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA National Average Per Capita Income using PPP method RANKCOUNTRY PER CAPITA INCOME IN US $ 1Luxemburg54,430 2BermudaN/A 36,000 3United States37,500 4Norway37,300 5LiechtensteinN/A 25,000 6Channel IslandsN/A 7Switzerland32,030

9. INFRASTRUCTUR E

10. It will take more than a trillion dollars to upgrade roads, bridges, mass transit, airports, schools, dams, water purity, and waste disposal facilities in the next century. School Buildings literally are crumbling; more than half of U.S. roadways are in substandard condition;

11. OIL PRICE

12. The actual price of the oil in United States of America is around the 4.108 dollars by galon.