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Curtis Ellis: 'Everybody but Joe Biden' Recognizes 'Mistake' of U.S.-China Free Trade

posted onMay 7, 2019
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Article snippet: In an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday, Ellis said nearly all former supporters of China entering the WTO in the 1990s have admitted that the decision has led to the gutting of the American working and middle class, except for Biden who continues to downplay the threat of China. Ellis said: As Ellis noted, Biden supported China entering the WTO and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), both of which led to the elimination of nearly five million American manufacturing jobs in the U.S. economy. The U.S. trade deficit with China has eliminated at least 3.5 million American jobs from the country’s economy, the latest data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has found. Millions of Americans in all 50 states have been displaced from their jobs, which have been lost due to U.S.-China trade relations. States that saw the largest amount of job loss from free trade with China include California, where more than 560,000 U.S. jobs have been lost; Texas, where 314,000 U.S. jobs were eliminated; and New York, which saw 183,500 U.S. jobs lost in the state. States like Oregon, New Hampshire, Minnesota, North Carolina, Vermont, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island were among the ten “hardest-hit states, when looking at job loss as a share of total state employment,” the EPI researchers note. Ellis praised Trump’s hiking of tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. Those tariffs, which were originally set at ten percent, now stan... Link to the full article to read more

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