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Events · December 2001

China's WTO Accession & U.S. Goods Trade

China joined the World Trade Organization in December 2001. The years that followed saw a pronounced deterioration in the U.S. merchandise trade balance — the trade-side counterpart of the "China shock" in U.S. manufacturing.[1]

  1. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (2025). International Transactions Accounts (BPM6). BEA. link.