Luke Gromen: U.S. manufacturing employment fell 30 percent after China joined WTO, did not recover - Traders Union
Luke Gromen: U.S. manufacturing employment fell 30 percent after China joined WTO, did not recover - Traders Union
Source: Traders Union
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DW NOTE
The WTO accession wasn't trade liberalisation — it was labour arbitrage at continental scale. American workers were never competing with Chinese workers on productivity; they were competing with a state-subsidised export platform paying $1 an hour with no environmental compliance costs. That 30% employment loss wasn't friction, it was the point.