自2000年以来美中商品贸易失衡的最大年度缩减量为410亿美元，但这一缩减是发生在2009年大衰退的最严重阶段。
Since 2000, the largest annual reduction in the US-China merchandise trade imbalance amounted to $41 billion, and that occurred in 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession.