CURRENTS: “When Recall Isn’t Total: Surge in Imports Challenges Voluntary System,” by Melanie Trottman, Wall Street Journal, 15 July 2008, p. A12.

Hmm, I feel like my citing of WSJ stories is dropping off the further we travel into the Murdoch era. Disturbing.

Cool map here shows top sources for American imports: All Old Core and New Core, if you grandfather in SE Asia.

So the big sources are Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, China, SE Asia and a cluster of West European countries.

Thus my point: We make our money off the Old and New Core, not the Gap per se.