The Reality That's China

摘要

According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), nearly 2.8 million U.S. jobs have been eliminated or displaced since 2001 due to the widening U.S.-China trade deficit. The report, Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost 2.8 million jobs between 2001 and 2010 by Robert Scott, EPI's Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Research, shows the trade deficit with China grew from $84 billion in 2001, when China entered the WTO, to $278 billion in 2010. It eliminated or displaced 2,790,100 jobs, or about 2% of total U.S. employment over that period. Of the nearly 2.8 million jobs lost or displaced, 1.9 million of them were in manufacturing — a figure that represents nearly half of all U.S. manufacturing jobs lost between 2001 and 2010, the report notes.