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According to a 2013 report by the American Economic Review, one million American factory jobs have been lost to China.
根據 2013 年《美國經濟評論 》的報告，有一百萬份美國制造業職缺已移轉至中國。
So what could Donald Trump actually do about this if elected?
如果川普就算選上了又如何解決這樣的問題呢？
We'll, he's suggested this: a 45% tariff on Chinese goods. Which he cannot do.
他建議這樣做：針對中國貨品征 45% 的關稅。但他無法這么做。
You can't impose tariffs on entire countries.
你不能對整個國家加重關稅。
What you can do under existing laws is to set out specific categories of imports you want to put a tariff on, like the US did to Chinese tires in 2009.
在現行法規下你所能做的是對特定的進口貨品分門別類，然后對其加重關稅，就像美國 2009 年時對付中國輪胎那樣。
The result? Tires just got imported from Indonesia, Mexico, and Thailand.
結果呢？輪胎改從印尼、墨西哥還有泰國進口。
And no, there were not suddenly more US jobs manufacturing tires.
結果美國還是沒有增加輪胎制造業的工作職缺。
But it's not easy to place these tariffs because you'd have to prove specific violations of trade rules to the World Trade Organization.
但要加征這些關稅并不容易，因為你必須要向世界貿易組織證明有明確違背貿易協定才可執行。
They're the ones that regulate global commerce.
他們就是管制全球商業活動的組織。
You see, when the WTO was set up in 1995, the rules laid out didn't really take into consideration dealing with China
要知道，當 WTO 在 1995 年創立之初，其規定并未考量到該如何規范像中國這樣的共產國家，
a country where the Communist Party has pretty murky ties to just about everything, including the handling of the economy.
特別是共產黨含混的深入中國所有大小事，包含對經濟的管理等。
It's not really communism, but the government is way more involved than in most countries.
它不是完全的共產主義，但是政府卻比其他國家都要更加介入。
If a president Trump decided to say "screw it" and did impose a broad China tariff, well, that would kind of mean global trade laws no longer matter.
如果川普總統最后決定說“管他的”，然后真的對中國廣泛課征關稅，那就有點意味著全球貿易法規都不再重要了。
And that goes against US policy going as far back as the end of World War II.
而這有違自二次世界大戰以來的美國國家政策。
