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No, Trump Didn’t Bring Back Jobs From China And Mexico

Now that his term finally is over, let’s examine Donald Trump’s performance on a key promise: reclaiming manufacturing jobs, especially from China and Mexico, to raise U.S. wages.

Evaluation first, then a grade. (Can you guess?)

Our trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, last summer praised several companies that dropped plans to move jobs offshore. The “era of reflexive offshoring is over,” he claimed in a New York Times op-ed last May. Continue reading.

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