China's waterborne exports to the U.S. continues to outdistance its Asian neighbors as the trickle of manufacturers migrating to China from the rest of Asia intensifies. In 2000, China's 3 million TEUs of containerized exports to the U.S. were three times that of Hong Kong and easily surpassed those of Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

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