"China responsible for bulk of the U.S. trade deficit in non-oil manufactured goods."
Posted by scapozzola on 02/13/2012
The United States buys a lot of STUFF from overseas, including oil. But if you take away the petroleum portion, just how much of the goods that the U.S. buys from the rest of the world come from China?
According to Robert Scott of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the answer is 71.8%.
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