Terence P. Jeffrey: America’s Top Source of Imports in 2022 Governed by Genocidal, Communist Regime

In 2022, Americans spent more money buying imports from a communist country than they did on imports from any other country.

According to Census Bureau data, the U.S. imported from China in 2013 was $536,754,100,000.

This was higher than the $534,507,000,000 that Americans spent on imports from Germany ($146.608,000,000), South Korea (115,338,200,000), Ireland (82,034,500,000), Italy (61.913,000,000), and the United Kingdom (64.1288,500,000) together.

The $536,754,100,000.00 that the United States spent last year on imports from Communist China was more than we paid for imports in the neighboring countries of Mexico ($454,930,000,000), and Canada ($437 729,000,000), which were our second-greatest sources of imports.

But while Canada and Mexico were the two biggest consumers of U.S. exports in 2022 — buying $356,112,600,000 and $324,377,900,000 respectively in U.S. goods — China did not even buy one-third as much in goods from the United States as we bought from them.

While Americans imported $536,754,100,000.00 from Communist China, Communist China exported only $153,837.100,000.

The result was that in 2022, the United States had a $382 917,000,000 merchandise deficit with Communist China.

This was the biggest trade deficit that the United States had with any country in the last year. In fact, the US’s $382,917,000,000 trade deficit with Communist China was greater than the $372,200,000,000 combined deficit with Canada ($81,000,000,000,000), Mexico ($130,600,000,000), Vietnam (116,100,000,000), and South Korea ($43.900,000,000).

The US’s $382,917,000,000 trade deficit with China in 2022 was larger than those with China in 2021 ($376,309s070,000) or 2020 ($351,109s440,00), even after these deficits were adjusted for inflation (as they currently are) and into December 2022 dollars.

This is not free trading. It is the subsidization of communist regimes engaged in genocide.

The State Department was unambiguous in stating that the Chinese Communist Party is controlling the Chinese government. The department’s most recent report on China’s human right situation states that the first sentence is: “The People’s Republic of China is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party is the paramount authority.”

This column mentioned last week that Mike Pompeo (then Secretary of State) declared in January 2021, that the communist regime is engaged in genocide.

“I have determined that the PRC, under the direction and control of the CCP, has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang,” Pompeo. “I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.”

Last week, this column noted that Antony Blinken, the current secretary-of-state, said during his 2021 confirmation hearing, that he was in agreement with Pompeo about the PRC’s genocide. This point has been reiterated by Blinken since then. Blinken said just two weeks ago that the PRC was “perpetrating ongoing genocide.”

“This past November, I named a dozen nations as ‘Countries of Particular Concern’ because of their egregious violations of religious freedom, from Russian authorities raiding and brutally beating Jehovah’s Witnesses to the People’s Republic of China perpetrating an ongoing genocide against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs,” Blinken spoke in a recorded address to the International Religious Freedom Summit.

So what can Congress do about the communist, genocidal regime that has been our main source of imports.

These imports should be stopped.

Congress should pass legislation to gradually impose a prohibitive tariff for all goods made in the People’s Republic of China. If China ceases genocide and creates a government that respects God-given rights, the prohibitive tariff on China’s goods can be lifted. Then trade between the United States and China can resume.

CNSnews.com’s editor-in-chief is Terence P. Jeffrey. You can learn more about him at the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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