China Now World's Largest Tech Supplier

[mandy]

China overtook the United States as the world's biggest supplier of information and communications technology products last year, according to a report released Monday.

While Chinese technology trade has grown almost 38 percent a year since 1996, the OECD report notes a corresponding decline in European and American imports in Asia.

China exported $180 billion worth of information and communications technology last year. The United States exported $149 billion. In 2003, U.S. exports totaled $137 billion and China's exports totaled $123 billion.

Most of China's technology exports are computers and computer-related equipment,

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