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Tim Ryan: Top five exporters of electronics, countries: China in 2002, $8.8 billion in exports of electronics; United States of…

On the recordJuly 20, 2004
Top five exporters of electronics, countries: China in 2002, $8.8 billion in exports of electronics; United States of America, $2.5 billion. Let me repeat. China, $2.5 billion; United States, $2.5 billion exporting electronics. So China is cleaning our clock. Top five exporters of telecom equipment: China, $36.4 billion, United States $21.6 billion. Getting our clock cleaned in the telecom equipment industry. Top five exporters of assembled computers: China, 3.8 billion; USA, 2.4 billion. Getting our clock cleaned by China for assembled computers.
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing U.S. trade deficits with China in electronics and technology during a floor speech.

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