Economics

The Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump’s Watch

Signing the USMCA deal at the White House in January.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

President Donald Trump’s great economic promise in the 2016 elections was to stop the offshoring of American jobs. So has it worked?

That’s not an easy question to answer. Companies tend not to loudly announce when they shut down a factory or office in the U.S. and move production and jobs overseas. Particularly in the days of Trump tweets.