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Why do the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau publish seasonally adjusted export/import data by geography in the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services release?

Publishing seasonally adjusted trade data by geography allows users to better assess underlying patterns in geographic time series data by removing predictable seasonal patterns specific to each country or world area.