Trade: A War We Lost

Why Nothing's Made In America Anymore

More than 42,000 U.S. factories have closed since 2001, when China entered the World Trade Organization. But Richard McCormack, editor of Manufacturing and Technology News, says that’s not the only reason why so little is made here anymore.

Then Brian O’Shaughnessy, chairman of Revere Copper Products, also a leading voice in the Coalition for a Prosperous America, explains why that business group wants to change U.S. international tax and trade policy.

Audio: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 2/10/10, Host: Robin Young.

Chinese factory worker roll call photo from the Daily Mail (UK), 2008.