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September 9, 2010
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The Myth of Low-Value Chinese Exports
 Alan Tonelson
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Manufactures as share of U.S. goods imports from China, 2009: 97.54% “Cheap consumer goods”* as share of U.S. manufactures imports from China, 2000: 56.12% “Cheap consumer goods” as share of U.S. manufactures imports from China, 2009: 42,.7% *NAICS codes 3141, 3149, 3151, 3152, 3159, 3161, 3351, 33521, 3371, 3372, 3379, 3399, 3343
Source: Calculated from Trade Dataweb, U.S. International Trade Commission, http://dataweb.usitc.gov
Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industry Educational Foundation and the author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Westview Press).
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