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The People's Republic of China's trade surplus with the United States approached $100 billion in fiscal year 2002. But the most significant and permanent Chinese export to the United States is not counted in dollars: Over the last decade, more than 30,000 Chinese children, the vast majority of them girls, have been adopted by American parents.
The flow dipped when China temporarily suspended adoptions last May due to the SARS outbreak. But in 2002, the INS processed 5,053 immigrant visas for children adopted from China, nearly 1,000 more than from Russia, and over twice as many as other large groups of adoptees from countries like Guatemala, South Korea, and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The problem behind Chinese adoptions.