EPI Paper on U.S. FDI in China

[Max Sawicky]

New from EPI:


U.S. INVESTMENT IN CHINA
WORSENS TRADE DEFICIT
U.S. firms build export-oriented
production base in China’s low-wage,
low labor-protection economy
by James Burke

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" . . . Although in 1989 only 30% of imports from China
competed against goods produced in the high-wage
sector of the U.S. market, by 1999 that percentage
had risen to 50%. . . . "