Major U.S.

Industries Facing Job Losses Because of NAFTA

The following table gives the number of jobs lost in major U.S. industries as a result of increased imports and plant relocations in Mexico and Canada from January 1, 1994 to September 28, 1999. From the table, we see that 244,266 jobs seems to have been lost in U.S. manufacturing from 1994 to 1999 and 15,618 in non-manufacturing, for a grand total number of jobs lost of 259,618. The table also shows that the apparel and electronics industries were the industries suffereing the largest number of job losses because of NAFTA. TABLE: Number of Jobs Lost in Major U.S. Industries because of NAFTA, 1994-1999

Industry Apparel Electronics Transportation equipment Fabricated metals Textiles Non-electrical machinery Lumber Scientific instruments Paper products Rubber Leather Subtotal

Number of Jobs Lost 73,568 33,684 17,090 15,372 14,150 11,747 9,826 9,433 8,982 7,722 7,521 209,095

Percent of Job Lost 28 13 7 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 81

Other manufacturing All manufacturing Non-manufacturing Total

35,171 244,266 15,352 259,618

14 95 6 101*

* Exceeds 100 because of rounding Source: M. J. Bolle, NAFTA: Estimated U.S. Job Gains and Losses by State Over 5 Years (Washington, D.C.: CRS Report to Congress, February 2, 2000), p. 9.