against extremely low-wage workers worldwide for making simpler products like toys and clothing. As a result,

the wages of low-skilled U.S. workers are likely to fall. There are, however, a number of reasons to believe that

while globalization has helped some U.S. industries and hurt others, it has not focused its negative impact on

the wages of low-skilled Americans. First, about half of U.S. trade is intra-industry trade. That means the U.S.

trades similar goods with other high-wage economies like Canada, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

For instance, in 2014 the U.S. exported over 2 million cars, from all the major automakers, and also imported

several million cars from other countries.

Most U.S. workers in these industries have above-average skills and wages—and many of them do quite well in

the world of globalization. Some evidence suggested that intra-industry trade between similar countries had a
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