Chart: Cumulative U.S. jobs displaced by growing goods trade deficit with China, 2001–2013 (in thousands of jobs)

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Cumulative U.S. jobs displaced by growing goods trade deficit with China, 2001–2013 (in thousands of jobs)

Year	Jobs displaced (thousands)
2001	0
2002	223.3
2003	464.7
2004	882.4
2005	1,359.6
2006	1,726.8
2007	2,087.4
2008	2,154.7
2009	1,861.6
2010	2,568.1
2011	2,911.4
2012	3,109.0
2013	3,157.1

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Source: Authors' analysis of U.S. Census Bureau (2013), U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC 2014), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS 2014b), and BLS Employment Projections program (BLS-EP 2014a and 2014b). For a more detailed explanation of data sources and computations, see the appendix.

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China Trade, Outsourcing and Jobs: Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost 3.2 million jobs between 2001 and 2013, with job losses in every state

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