“Outsourcing is still a smaller phenomenon than many people think. Currently imports from China are measured at about 2.7 percent of US consumer spending. Furthermore, for each dollar of imports from China, about fifty-five cents was ultimately spent in the United States preparing the import in some manner. That leaves Chinese imports, measured in terms of true net impact, at about 1.3 percent of American spending.”
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