What a ****ing load of stupid bullshit. This is absolutely not true Dan. Get out of Ponca Dan. It makes you stupid.
Our supposed "trade deficit" has always been dumb. We are great at development and distribution. Not so much at manufacturing. The end result is a trade deficit because we create and market the product, earn a ton of cash but we don't make it. This is the reason most Americans work in air conditioned offices and not hot factories.
In your dipshit example, that would be a US export, not an import. Stop wating my time with this shit.