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News and Articles on Import Penetration
TWO VIEWS: Expanding 'buy American' in stimulus bill only hope for recovery Mar 29, 2009
The import share has been much higher and rising much faster for the manufacturing industries that historically have created the best income-earning opportunities for the typical American worker, with the markets for even many advanced manufacturers featuring 50% to 80% import penetration. In fact, if the share of U.S. manufacturers markets controlled by imports in 2006 (the last year for which government data permits these calculations) had merely stayed at its 1997 levels, and overall American... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Is 'buy American' good for U.S. economy? Two views Mar 24, 2009
The import share has been much higher and rising much faster for the manufacturing industries that historically have created the best income-earning opportunities for the typical American worker, with the markets for even many advanced manufacturers featuring 50-80 percent import penetration. Today, the U.S. economy desperately needs this growth and the income-earning opportunities it creates. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Is Protectionism Unavoidable? Feb 14, 2009
And they could devote a lot more effort to cushioning the blow to workers hurt by rapid import penetration, in order to take some pressure off having to take protectionist measures in the first place. For supporters of more rather than less trade, of whom I am one, it s no use just screaming about the evils of protectionism. (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, CT)
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