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America never spent this much on foreign oil, even when crude hit $140 a barrel

Chips crossed that threshold in six years. Oil took five decades to build the same kind of hold.

One Number
One Number

Oct 15, 2026

546

THE ECONOMY & MAIN STREET • TRADE & MANUFACTURING

Your phone. Your truck. Your pacemaker. They all run on chips we don’t make here. Six years ago, the American trade deficit in semiconductors was roughly $60 billion a year. Manageable. Then the AI buildout hit, and imports went vertical. Today that deficit has ballooned to $546 billion a year — nine times what it was, and more than America ever spent on foreign oil, even when crude was $140 a barrel. Congress passed the CHIPS Act to fix this. Total allocation: $52.7 billion. The annual problem: $546 billion.

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It took America five decades to build its oil dependence — and six years to build an even bigger one in semiconductors.

Source: Visual Capitalist analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. International Trade Commission data, Q2 2026
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