TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS TO US UP

CHINA BOOSTS TECHNOLOGY EXPORTS TO US: The value of high-tech merchandise - everything from semiconductors to large appliances - shipped to the US from China rose 32 percent from 2000 to 2002, a trend experts expect to continue. The value of such merchandise shipped from Mexico and Japan, the second- and third-biggest exporters of technology to the United States, fell 8 percent and 40 percent, respectively. In 1993, China's high-tech sales to the US stood at about $4 billion, compared with Japan's $38.6 billion.