Gobbling China's exports, US sinks into dependency - Asia Times

[rcjordan]

https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/gobbling-chinas-exports-us-sinks-into-dependency/

[ergophobe]

The Chinese data are more reliable than the US data, due to the practice of tariff avoidance through indirect routing of Chinese exports.

Reminds me about the massive export numbers from small countries with big ports that we saw in the other thread. Interesting

[rcjordan]

So Travoli and I are the poster children for that article.  I buy a LOT of tools, equipment, materials, and appliances from Amz-ebay-zoro ...all from China.  Most of them are of excellent quality and about half the cost of what I used to pay for US-sourced, lower quality, similar items decades ago.