b'28American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comLena R.Irtysh R U S S I A AmurIrkutskAstanaAppraising the USChinaAmurAmurtrade shifts Qaraghandy CHINA TRADE 2023KAZAKHSTAN UlaanbaatarQiqiharIrtyshUS-China trade is shiftingbut is the rate closerM O N G O L I A Harbin Jixito a torrent or a trickle? Alashankou Urumqi Changchun JilinBishkek Alma Ata Erenhot VladivostokBy George Lauriat, AJOT Fuxin LiaoyuanKYRGYZSTAN FushunTarim R. BenxiBaotou Zhangjiakou Jinzhou Yingkou NORTH KOREABaotouBytheNumbers.InthebytheForeignAgriculturalHuang Ha Hohhot Beijing Tangshan Feng ChengDatong Dandongyear 2022 a curious thing hap- Service (FAS) under the USYinchuan Tianjin Dalian PyongyangTAJIKISTAN Yinchuan Port of Tianjinpened. Mexico passed ChinaDepartmentofAgriculture,C H I N A Taiyuan Shijiazhuang Incheon SeoulHuang Haas the United States 2nd larg- itwasarecordyearinFYXining Handan Jinan Port of Qingdao SOUTH KOREA Sakai- JAPANTaejeonest trade partner. Canada was2022.TheFASreportsaidLanzhou Luoyang Taian Port of LianyunangTaegu Pusan minato Kyoto TokyoPAKISTANZaozhuang Nagoyafirstat$1.2trillion,MexicoU.S.agriculturalexportsXian Kaifeng Xuzhou Kita-kyushu Hiroshima OsakaIslamabad Srinagar Huang Ha Xianwassecondposting$779.3to China in fiscal year (FY)Indus Huaibei FukuokaRawalpindi HuainanIndus Gujranwala Jinsha R.billion, and China was third at2022 were $36.4 billion andMianyang Nanjing Wuhu WuxiFaisalabad Lahore Salween Hefei$690 billion in two-way tradesurpassed the previous yearsChengdu Yangtze Wuhan Huzhou Port of Shanghai Port of ShanghaiChengdu YangtzeChengdu JiaxingMultanwith the US. recordwithChinaastheZigong Chongqing Huangshi Hangzhou Port of NingboNew NingboYueyang JingdezhenOfcourse,whenthelargest export market for theNEPAL Changsha Nanchang Shang RaoIndus DelhiKathmanduJinsha R.Ganges BHUTANnumbersarebrokenoutbysecond consecutive year. Sig- Agra Lucknow Thimphu Dukou Guiyang Pingxiang WenzhouJaipurexports to the US, the ordernificantly higher agriculturalKanpur Patna Brahmaputra Mekong Kunming Fuzhou TaipeiAllahabad GangesissomewhatdifferentpricesandresilientdemandVaranasi BANGLADESH Salween R. Shaoguan Port of XiamenINDIAChinasexportstotheUShelpeddriveexportsaboveBhopal Jabalpur Dhanbad Dhaka Port of Guangzhou Shantou P a c i f i cAhmadabadIndore Jamshedpur Khulnahit $536.3 billion, Mexicosthepreviousyearsrecord(Calcutta)Kolkata Chittagong VIETNAM Nanning Kaohsiung O c e a nVadodara Narmada$454.8 billion and CanadasdespitelowervolumesforNagpur Hanoi Zhanjiang Port of Hong KongSurat Port of Shenxhen$436.6 billion. most products. Ulhasnagar MYANMAR Mekong LAOS Hai Phong Port of ShenzhenStillevenretainingthe(SHIFTScontinued onVientianeMumbai Pune Godavari R.topexportspotintradeto(Bombay) Hyderabad Vishakhapatnam PHILIPPINESpage 29)the US the question remainsKrishna R. Krishna R. Rangoon Salween R. THAILANDis Chinas trade with the USMekongslipping? Certainly the politi-calrelationshiphasdeterio-ratedtoitslowestpointin decadesandthetariff-war betweenthetworivalsis still in place. Yet the imports (in dollar terms) from China remainclosetothesumof theentire27memberEuro-pean Union ($553.3 billion). So, really just how big a shift haveUSimportersmade away from China to alterna-tivesources?Andfromthe US exporter perspective, how badly have American exports to China been impacted?us-c HiNat radEThe US Office of Tech-nology Evaluation under the DepartmentofCommerce intheirreleaseofthe2022 U.S. Trade with China sur-prisinglyreportedIn2022, bothU.S.exportstoChina and imports from China con-tinuedtogrowforathird year in a row. [editors italics] U.S.exportstotaled$153.8 billion,anincreaseof1.6% ($2.4 billion) from 2021; U.S. importsfromChinatotaled $536.8 billion, an increase of 6.3% ($31.8 billion); and the trade deficit with China was $382.9 billion, an increase of 8.3% ($29.4 billion).Thereportalsohigh-lightedthatin2022China accountedfor7.5%ofthe $2.1 trillion in the countrys global exports. Further 16.5% of the US total global exports or $3.2 trillion were imported from China and 32.4% of the trade deficit was attributable to the China trade.Giventhetensionand rhetoricbetweenthetwo superpowers,thefactthat tradehasgrownforthree straightyearsissurprising. Infact,Chinas$536.8bil-lion in exports is only slightly smaller than the 2018 export mark of $538.5 billion. And USexportsat$153.8bil-lionisthehighestinyears. Accordingtodatacompiled'