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New York’s JFK International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport ranked first and … More second among all of the United States’ airport, seaport and border crossings through May, the latest data available. No airport has finished in the top spot in at least two decades. ustradenumbers.com For the first time ever, the top two “ports” for U.S. merchandise trade are airports. This is particularly counterintuitive given that the nation’s top three trade partners largely rely on border crossings (Canada, Mexico) and seaports (China) and account for more than one-third of all U.S. trade. Through May, New York’s JFK International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport ranked first and second for the value of their trade, according to my analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. Until this year, trade at JFK was fairly balanced between exports and imports. Not this year, as … More imports have surged. ustradenumbers.com Trade at JFK has increased 99.72%, just short of doubling from the same five months of the previous year, while O’Hare’s trade is up 57.66%, a percentage that would be astronomical in normal times but seems not-so-extraordinary in the shadow of JFK. Despite President Trump’s focus on diminishing the U.S. trade deficit through a trade war with the world, much of the increase for JFK is in imports while the preponderance of O’Hare’s is imports. In what has historically been the relatively stable world of export-import trade, it is just one of many disruptions unleashed by the whirlwind two terms of President Trump as he took aim at the $1 trillion U.S. trade deficit. Here are a few other disruptions: That disruption shows up in many ways. Consider that the United States has had three different top trade partners in five years (China, Canada, Mexico), three top exports in three…

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