China now accounts for most of the U.S. trade gap in manufactured goods, and it competes against U.S. companies in virtually every product category.

FORBES: Intelligence Community Fears U.S. Manufacturing Decline

The black economy can be guessed at by the gap between the volume of goods exported to Azerbaijan and the volume of the same goods recorded as imports.

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We continue to import more goods and services than we export, and that gap increased in the 1st quarter.

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