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Saturday, January 6, 2018

Mapping Export Related Jobs


In the lite of Donald Trump's recent merchandise tariffs CNBC has taken a unopen hold off at where jobs are close theme on exports. Other countries are probable to reply to Trump's merchandise state of war yesteryear applying retaliatory tariffs on goods in addition to services made yesteryear American companies. This could arrive at got a large impact on the jobs in addition to economies of locations across the United States, peculiarly those that are close reliant on the export market.

CNBC's Where American Jobs are Most Dependent on Exports interactive map uses scaled markers to exhibit the seat out of export-supported jobs inward each county inward the United States. The larger a county's marking in addition to thus the to a greater extent than jobs are theme on exports. The colors of the markers exhibit the percentage of local gross domestic product that is related to exports. If y'all hover over a marking on the map in addition to thus y'all tin sentiment the exact seat out of local jobs in addition to the percent of gross domestic product reliant on exports inward that county.

The map points to simply about of the counties which are close reliant on the export market. These include LA County, New York County, Harris County inward Houston in addition to Cook County inward Chicago.


Last calendar month Axios released an interactive map to exhibit how Trump's merchandise tariffs mightiness upshot workers inward the USA. Axios' map, called Trump's Trade War, visualizes the concentration of tariff-affected industries inward each county compared to the national average. The darker the color of a county on Axios' map in addition to thus the higher the concentration of affected industries. The map truly uses ii unlike colors to exhibit the concentration of industries. Pink is used to exhibit where to a greater extent than people voted for Trump inward the 2016 presidential election. Green is used to exhibit the counties which voted for Clinton.

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Firing Back at Trump inward the Trade War - the NYT (also later China's 2018 tariffs) placed a map showing where China's tariffs close touching on American voters side-by-side amongst a map of where voters backed Trump inward the Presidential election