How Trade Affects Domestic Industries and Jobs
Student Worksheet
Detroit's decline as an auto hub sits across from Seattle's rise as a tech hub in the reading's account of how trade reshapes industries over decades. Assembly plants sprang up in Michigan and Ohio once tariffs fell under NAFTA, aircraft manufacturers built high-skill jobs selling jets overseas, and textile production moved to lower-wage countries, three outcomes from the same trade policy landing in different places.
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