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GliderGuider

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9. Chinese exports to the USA

Reply to Benton D Struckcheon (Reply #7)

Tue Aug 26, 2014, 07:51 PM

Aug 2014

In 2013 China exported $440 billion dollars worth of goods to the USA: about 57% was electronics, 26% household goods, and 11% machinery of one sort or another.

It looks like the main arbitrage is in labour costs, not industrial energy per se. The energy growth in China seems to be mainly in service of the domestic economy. Not sure what food production has to do with this discusion - China is a net importer of food, not an exporter.

Data from https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/country/

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Kick.... daleanime Aug 2014 #1

He's wrong. Benton D Struckcheon Aug 2014 #2

What about the crux of Garrett's argument? GliderGuider Aug 2014 #3

The crux of his and your argument is fatalism in re CO2. Benton D Struckcheon Aug 2014 #8

It's a question of system boundaries. GliderGuider Aug 2014 #11

Funny, you sound very similar to another poster that used to be on EE a lot NickB79 Aug 2014 #4

Jevons is a favourite whipping-boy GliderGuider Aug 2014 #6

"We are self-sufficient in food." NickB79 Aug 2014 #5

If you'd bother to actually read what I wrote, Benton D Struckcheon Aug 2014 #7

Chinese exports to the USA GliderGuider Aug 2014 #9

One more time, Benton D Struckcheon Aug 2014 #10