Roadway Motors, a U. S. automobile company, produces a convertible at a plant in Germany on March 27, 2018. Roadway Motors imports the convertible into the United States on May 18, 2018. Chocolate Express, a Swiss chocolate company, produces a chocolate bar at a plant in Illinois on December 9, 2018. An elementary school student buys the chocolate bar on December 24. An accountant starts a client's 2018 tax return on April 14, 2019, finishing it just before midnight on April 15, 2019. Zippycar, a U. S. automobile company, produces a convertible at a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis on January 14, 2018. It sells the car at a dealership in Denver on February 12, 2018. Graincorp, a U. S. agricultural company, produces corn syrup at a plant in Iowa on September 25, 2018. It sells the corn syrup to Crunchy's for use in the production of cereal that will be made in the United States in 2018. (Note: Focus exclusively on whether production of the corn syrup increases GDP directly, and ignore the effect of production of the cereal on GDP.)