American dependence on imports from China has significantly diminished in recent years. Companies are scrambling to redirect their supply chains elsewhere to avoid unpredictable policy changes by the communist regime, tariffs imposed on China in 2018, and backlash over human rights violations.
February imports from China came in below $31 billion, the lowest since 2006, adjusted for inflation and excluding February and March 2020 when movement of goods from China plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, based on Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
In particular, clothes and electronics imports, where China used to reign, have shifted.
Computer and electronics imports in January and February dropped by about 27 percent compared to the same months in 2018. Clothing imports dropped nearly 42 percent in the same period, according to Department of Commerce data….