Chart: U.S. jobs displaced by the growing goods trade deficit with China since 2001 (in thousands of jobs)

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U.S. jobs displaced by the growing goods trade deficit with China since 2001 (in thousands of jobs)

Year	Jobs displaced (thousands)
2001	0.0
2002	225.5
2003	459.3
2004	872.3
2005	1,334.9
2006	1,686.8
2007	1,998.0
2008	2,061.2
2009	1,713.6
2010	2,339.2
2011	2,645.0
2012	2,785.8
2013	2,823.8
2014	2,990.0
2015	3,191.6
2016	2,999.6
2017	3,360.6

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Source: Authors’ analysis of U.S. Census Bureau 2013, U.S. International Trade Commission 2018, and Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections program 2017a and 2017b. For a more detailed explanation of data sources and computations, see the appendix.

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The China toll deepens: Growth in the bilateral trade deficit between 2001 and 2017 cost 3.4 million U.S. jobs, with losses in every state and congressional district

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