美国经济与美国跨国公司在世界经济中所占的相对优势地位,在70年代和80年代下降了。美国出现贸易逆差的根本原因,在于因产业的生产基础弱化而导致的国际竞争能力的下降;这跟美国巨大企业的跨国活动有着密切的关系。从60年代起,美国跨国公司活动的中心是:建立全球范围的国外生产网络,通过供样加工等形式从国外调拨产品;其结果就是:在 The comparative advantage of U.S. economy and that of U.S. multinationals in the world economy declined in the 1970s and 1980s. The root cause of the trade deficit in the United States lies in the decline of its international competitiveness due to the weakening of the production base of the industry. This is closely related to the multinational activities of the great U.S. corporations. Since the 1960s, the center of multinational corporations in the United States has been to establish a worldwide network of foreign production and transfer products from abroad by means of sample processing. As a result,