U.S. imports from China

[OhioChick]

UPDATED: 10 :40 a.m. EDT, January 13, 2008

The United States imported $288 billion in goods from China in 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Here are the general classifications:

$132 billion - Machinery and transport equipment
$104 billion - Misc. manufactured articles
$36 billion - Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material
$6 billion - Chemicals and related products
$4 billion - Food & live animals
$3 billion - Commodities and other transactions
$1 billion - Crude materials, except fuels
$1 billion - Mineral fuels, lubricants and related
$38 million - Beverages & tobacco
$23 million - Animal & vegetable oils, fats, waxes


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http://www.cleveland.com/business/importsfromchina/

[kurth]

1. From soups to nuts, from paper clips to iPods

Thanks, Bill.

[Angela Shelley]

2. Now I understand ... why we have so many "asswholes"

running around everywhere.


Check "Food and Live Animals"

Commodity Quantity Units Value
Primates, Live 15,228 $28,784,867
Animals, Live, Nesoi 0 $155,126
Asses, Live, Except Purebred Breeding 5,173 $54,758
Reptiles (Including Snakes and Turtles), Live 850 $3,150

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Cigarettes!

Cigarettes Containing Tobacco Nesoi, Paper-Wrapped???

Apparently we imported 258,950 and paid $8,493,915?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. We used to hate them because they were Communists out to destroy capitalism.

The irony is delicious.