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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. made products over the next 10 years. He could do this by insisting on reciprocity in access on a product-by-product basis, otherwise China loses its U.S.

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America’s Uneasy History with Free Trade

Harvard Business

This proved the most controversial of all US trade accords, in part because average wages in Mexico were only a fraction of those in the United States, giving Mexican products an advantage on labor-intensive goods and thus threatening U.S. industries had internationalized their production and had become dependent on foreign trade.