$31,304,400,000: U.S. Merchandise Trade Deficit With China Sets January Record

The real price of "Cheap Imported Goods" made in factories that Americans are too good to work in here in America/SSSS. 

Actually, this is 'Making The Rich Pay Their Fair Share' through inane Corporate Income Taxes that the Consumer - not the Corporation - pays, driving American jobs out of America.

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By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 7, 2017 | 12:54 PM EST  

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China set a record for the month of January, hitting $31,304,400,000, according to data released today by the Census Bureau.

During January, the United States exported $10,071,900,000 in goods to China but imported $41,376,300,000 in goods from China.

Prior to this year, the largest merchandise trade deficit the United States has ever run with China in the month of January was the $29,821,870,000 deficit (in constant 2017 dollars) the U.S. ran with China in the first month of 2015.



In that year, the U.S. went on to run a record annual merchandise trade deficit with China of $376,192,000,000 in 2017 dollars. In 2016, the merchandise trade deficit dropped to $351,132,830,000 in 2017 dollars.

This year was the first time the U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China topped $30 billion in the month of January.

The $31,304,400,000 merchandise trade deficit with China in this January was approximately 531 times larger than the $58,900,000 merchandise trade deficit (in constant 2017 dollars) the U.S. ran with China in 1985.

Values were adjusted to 2017 dollars using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator.

• Thank You Mr Jeffrey and CNS.