The United States remains the #1 exporter in the world in terms of aggregate value of goods exported. We still do make plenty of things in the United States.

The United States remains the #1 exporter in the world in terms of aggregate value of goods exported. We still do make plenty of things in the United States. The manufacturing that gets exported is the stuff that requires low- to medium-skilled workers. All the high-skilled manufacturing stays in the developed countries (i.e. U.S., Germany, Japan, etc.).