I don't even want to imagine what next Christmas will be like:
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/of_trade_quotas_and_fairness.php
Within 500 days, 70 percent of the industry will move to China —a $220 billion shift; $42 billion of that shift will happen just in the business other countries had with the U.S. Now, certainly, U.S. apparel workers are going to feel a terrible hit. The remaining U.S. industry will almost be wiped out: of the roughly 690,000 jobs left in apparel in this country, probably 400,000 will vanish in three years. These are often jobs in rural, poorer communities where there are not a lot of options.
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