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The Role of Import Export Data in Identifying High-Demand Products

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Exactly......our industrial “policies” favor the exporting of manufacturing to Asia, where labor costs are cheaper and regulations less intrusive, and then importing the finished goods to the US for purchase and consumption. By doing so, the US is essentially “exporting” the generation of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the manufacturing process to Asian countries (mostly to China) and then adding to those emissions, the emissions associated with transporting (by ship or plane) those finished goods to the US. So, we “blame” China for continuing the use of coal power to make those goods, as we import more and more.

I know that some climate and environmental organizations have research papers, with infographics, showing how the world ought to perceive the responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions by “allocating” the emissions to the ultimate consumer of the goods and processes that generated the emissions. I’ll look for those papers and charts and post later. They’re interesting.

Excerpt from this story from Truthout:

The stark truth is that China’s pollution is largely made in America.

Simply put, corporate America has fueled much of China’s carbon-belching industrial behemoth. U.S. corporations and investors exploited China’s relatively few environmental regulations, along with its vast supply of cheap labor, in an effort to minimize the cost of doing their business. U.S. corporations were able to relocate their manufacturing to China thanks in no small part to All-American economic policies emphasizing maximum profit and avoidance of regulations. Those policies, in turn, globalized the supply chains that made those profitable regulatory dodges possible.

Six million dollars.

China’s carbon production is indirectly subsidized by the U.S. military, which is the de facto guarantor of the international oil economy.

According to U.S. Census data, that was the trade deficit with China in 1985. It’s also the launching pad for a meteoric rise. It started during the yearly renewals of its “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) trade status during the Clinton years. But it skyrocketed after President George W. Bush granted China “Permanent Normal Trading Relations” (PNTR) — meaning a “free-trade” designation that drops trade barriers and lowers tariffs to “most favored nation” status — in 2001. That, along with President Clinton ushering China into the World Trade Organization during the previous year, accelerated the now-infamous process of “outsourcing” or “offshoring” as U.S. businesses rode the wave of globalization in search of cheap labor in poorly regulated countries with lax or nonexistent environmental standards.