For First Time in Two Decades, U.S. Buys More From Mexico Than China

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For First Time in Two Decades, U.S. Buys More From Mexico Than China
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No way. They import electronics from the place that sells cheap electronics?!

No but honestly Mexico being our produce supplier and then using that money to get better electronics to make more food sounds like such a big win for us even if it mildly benefits China.

Funny how US imports go down just as Mexico's go up. Almost like there might be a strategy to global economics.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports-from-china

Funny how US imports go down just as Mexico's go up.

You've linked two different graphs with timescales that don't match. If you zoom out the timescales, you can see US Chinese imports vary considerably throughout the year but are roughly level over 10 years. Meanwhile Mexico's Chinese imports have been on a predictable upward trajectory for over 20 years.

And neither of these independent variables gives us any information at all about Chinese goods being imported into the US via Mexico. This is as bad as someone sending that "what happened in 1971" page as evidence for something.