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Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]

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162 points TaurenHunter | 1 comments | 04 Apr 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.247s | source
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zabzonk ◴[04 Apr 25 09:49 UTC] No.43580060[source]▶
Strange. I, as a UK citizen, don't seem to buy almost any physical USA goods at all.
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1. tonyedgecombe ◴[04 Apr 25 12:56 UTC] No.43581622[source]▶
I was thinking about this, outside of services the only thing I do buy is Park Tool bike tools (which are excellent).

I suppose I could include Apple products on the basis that the majority of the profits go to the US rather than the country of manufacture. Apple sells £1.5b of goods and services in the UK although that won't appear in the UK-US trade figures.