With ‘Made in China’

In 2011, US exports to China totaled $103.9 billion, a 13 percent increase over 2010. In 2001, US exports to China totaled $19.2 billion.

What does the US export to China? Power generation equipment; oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; electrical machinery and equipment; vehicles, excluding rails; aircraft and spacecraft; optics and medical equipment; plastics and articles thereof; pulp and paperboard; copper and articles thereof; and organic chemicals.

In 2011, US imports from China totaled $399.3 billion, 9.4 percent above 2010. In 2001, US imports from China totaled $102.3 billion.

Top imports from China: electrical machinery and equipment; power generation equipment; toys, games and sports equipment; furniture; footwear and parts thereof; apparel, knitted or crocheted; apparel, not knitted or crocheted; plastics and articles thereof; iron, steel; vehicles, excluding rail.

The US is not the only country that does multi-billion export and import business with China. For other countries, “Made in China” carries the same notice of trade and the same notice that many products that could be made here, are not.

Numbers and such: ‘US-China Trade Statistics and China’s World Trade Statistics.’

https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html