That could only be done because the constant flow of cheap Chinese goods helped keep inflation in check.

These streets were filled with retail stores selling a wide variety of Chinese goods.

Chinese goods are popular in part due to their low costs.

Put a 40 percent tariff on all Chinese goods coming to this country: a nice round number.

The only real "attraction" is the market crammed full of cheap Chinese goods.

But demand for Chinese goods, domestically and abroad, is high enough to put those concerns to rest in the time being.

One contentious issue is the effect which large amounts of Chinese goods are having on local light manufacturing.

Chinese goods are displacing local ones, but China is not willing to open its markets.

Will it not be necessary, in the end, to block imports of Chinese goods altogether?

This continued to 1950 when a trade embargo was imposed on Chinese goods.