6:00 PM -- With several North American vendors working more closely with their Chinese counterparts, I thought I'd have a look back at how much telecom equipment we've been importing in recent years.
In 2003, the United States posted a $17.5 billion telecommunications equipment trade deficit, the largest in recent years. Over the last five years, U.S. trade deficits in telecommunications
equipment totaled $53.2 billion. By contrast, in 1994–99, the United States posted an average $3.4 billion surplus. The trade balance reversed in 1999, as imports increased 43 percent to surpass exports... Exports declined 14.1 percent in 2003 while imports increased 4.5 percent, leading to a $17.5 billion deficit, the worst in the last 10 years.
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