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How is China the most important? Measured in dollars, a brief search seems to show that we trade more with Canada? https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statist

• ianburrell 3y ago
  China is biggest imports. Canada and Mexico are biggest total trade, although it is really close. Canada and Mexico are the biggest exports.
• radpanda 3y ago
  In my mind it's where we get the most stuff that we couldn't get elsewhere. Sure, we can harvest more or less hardwood, or import more or less from Canada, Sure, if we have issues with Guatemala we can buy our t-shirts from somewhere else. But if we want the devices that our information economy requires, there seems to be no where else to build them. Apple's attempts to build iPhones in India for example: https://www.firstpost.com/world/apples-india-production-faces-quality-issues-about-50-per-cent-of-iphone-housings-produced-rejected-12170362.html https://www.firstpost.com/world/apples-india-production-face...