Among other things, the study found that:
- Trade-related job loss accounted for a major portion of Oregon's overall job losses over the past year. Between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010, 9,955 Oregonians were certified by Labor Department as losing their jobs to trade. This number is 26.6% of the net 37,400 Oregon jobs lost over that time period. (In the time since the study was released, even more jobs have been lost to trade: 10,902 between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.)
- Trade-related job loss also accounts for a significant portion of Oregon's ongoing unemployment problem. The 46,959 total Oregon jobs certified as having been lost to trade during the "NAFTA era" of January 1994 to December 2009 are the equivalent of 2.95% of the state's current total employment - or 22.6% of the state's total unemployment. For technical reasons pertaining to the data pool, only a fraction of the Oregon jobs lost to direct offshoring or competition from imports are even counted in these figures.
- For a variety of reasons, 2009 was an unprecedented year for trade-related job losses certified by the Labor Department. The 9,457 Oregon workers certified as losing their jobs to trade in 2009 was 322% higher than the average number of workers certified each year between 1994 and 2009.