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China's Contributions To America

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China, the second leading exporter in the world, is known for their immense role in the United States economy. Without China’s contribution to the U.S. economy, the United States would suffers tremendously. This is the same case for China, the contributions from foreign companies is a big reasons for China's success. The relationship between these two superpowers were not always very strong. For years the United States trade system was not a very compelling situation for other countries to do trade. As the United States evolved into the superpower country they faced a lot of complications. For the United States of America to remain one of the world’s most powerful countries a strong relationship with China is a necessity. The continuation of …show more content…

This set back foreign trade tremendously and completely changed the outlook the United States had on trade. In 1930, the U.S. government put the Smoot- Hawley Tariff Act into place. The Smoot- Hawley act put a tax on imported goods to encourage american businesses to stay in the United States. This was a failure as several countries retaliated with a tax of their own on United States goods. With the United States losing so much revenue they decided to put the Reciprocal tariff act into place. This allowed countries to negotiate with the United States about the tariff …show more content…

The united states has numerous amounts of factories in china for the production of goods at the cheapest price possible. With Americans relying on the basic price of an item, say the price of an iPhone, without manufacturing this in china at the lowest wage several americans would simply not be able to buy these luxury items. This is the case for not just luxury items but for all items like plastic silverware, furniture, backpacks and many other items. If the United States were limit the amount of imports from china the entire economy would change. Not just because of the increase in prices but small businesses would be affected as well. For example say a small self owned restaurant budgets themselves on how much the plates, silverware, and napkins cost. Without imports from China these prices would jump immensely resulting in the owner to either increase the price of the product or they will begin to lose

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