[A. Pole]

They have their own manufacturing base now....supplied to them by our bought out stock holders. What do they need from us now?

Soy beans, wood, animal hides, movies.

[snowsislander]

Soy beans, wood, animal hides, movies.

I checked the Census trade numbers, and here are the categories that we exported over $1 billion to China in 2005, sorted in descending order (values are in thousands of dollars):

End-use code	Value 2001	Value 2002	Value 2003	Value 2004	Value 2005
(22000) Civilian aircraft	2177094	3146162	2148172	1617532	3837223
(21320) Semiconductors	1091624	1589522	2447029	2938303	3360980
(00100) Soybeans	1012574	995837	2888802	2328833	2253082
(12500) Plastic materials	621936	731540	933584	1381725	1830827
(21180) Industrial machines, other	823854	1106265	1167534	1911342	1531743
(12000) Steelmaking materials	447239	463341	710924	984441	1465645
(21301) Computer accessories	1250931	884009	1006233	1070259	1426474
(10000) Cotton, raw	46486	147652	763697	1431259	1399986
(12540) Chemicals-organic	358193	539157	1010649	1442375	1364663
(21160) Measuring, testing, control instruments	471497	539571	703480	996202	1071641
(12420) Pulpwood and woodpulp	331904	424069	612564	769913	1023423
(21400) Telecommunications equipment	1287319	1074342	916487	1020814	1000624

I was surprised at just how much cotton we are now shipping. We are literally shipping raw cotton all the way to China to be made into cloth to be shipped back to us--- the same cotton that was farmed just outside the southern factories where we used to make it into cloth.

[Nowhere Man]

Soy beans, wood, animal hides, movies.

Good Lord! That means the free traders pushed us back to where we were in the 1700's, except for movies that is.

[Nowhere Man]

Soy beans, wood, animal hides, movies.

And perhaps women, there is a girl/woman shortage in Red China because of the one child policy, there are cases where female babies have been killed. I hear that even the Red Chinese are starting to crack down on it but still it will take a lot of time to balance things.