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What Happens When You Decide to Leave China?
Reshoring is the hottest trend in U.S. manufacturing. According to a recent study by Boston Consulting Group, 54 percent of all United States companies over $1 billion in revenues are planning...
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Manufacturers Had a Good Year and Expect 2015 to Be Better
Recent data show relative strength in demand and output in the manufacturing sector, with activity levels reflecting improvements since earlier in the year. In particular, the latest...
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Reshoring: Manufacturing Jobs Returning to America
Made in the U.S.A. is hot again, and the number of manufacturing jobs that are returning to the U.S. — or coming to the U.S. for the first time — from overseas has hit a record level. Sixty thousand...
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WalMart Helped Push Manufacturing Overseas
Now it wants to reverse that. The company is two years into a 10-year plan to buy $250b more in products from American factories. Bentonville, Arkansas: The group cheer at Wal-Mart’s third annual US...
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Walmart’s Self-Interested Shot at Reviving The American Factory
Making media out of Wal-Mart’s U.S. Manufacturing Summit. (Lydia DePillis/The Washington Post) Buying more Made-in-the-USA goods helps burnish its image — but domestic manufacturing helps Wal-Mart’s...
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Success Of Nation’s Manufacturing Depends On U.S. Supply Chain
In a thought-provoking post on the official blog for the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), author Mark Schmidt talks about the...
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Is Made In America More Than Just Hype?
A L.L. Bean shipping center in Freeport, Maine. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images As the media tells it, American-made goods are having a “moment.” But the numbers tell a different story. The...
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Walmart Partners with Reshoring Initiative as Made in USA Gets Real
Walmart supercenter. (Source: Forbes.com) The Reshoring Initiative is partnering with Walmart to help retailers and suppliers manufacture more of their consumer products in the US.Walmart has committed...
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Consumer Reports: Made in America?
Almost eight in 10 American consumers say they would rather buy an American-made product than an imported one, according to a recent survey conducted by Consumer Reports. And more than 60 percent say...
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The Case for Reshoring: Bring Quality Manufacturing Jobs to USA
Good news for U.S. manufacturers: stateside production and employment opportunities are on the rise. According to an article in the July issue of Consumer Reports, U.S. manufacturing has increased 45...
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RIP Manufacturing Renaissance (and Reshoring) Claims
Because manufacturers (and others) don’t always do what they say, surveys of their intentions on hiring and investment and the like should always be taken with a big boulder of salt – the more so...
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Reshoring Data Reveals Progress, Problems for Reclaiming Jobs
The Reshoring Initiative, a not-for-profit organization that helps manufacturers recognize the profit potential for adopting local sourcing and production, issued its 2015 Reshoring Report, documenting...
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Counterfeit on Amazon
Amazon.com (AMZN) is finally taking counterfeiters to court. The e-commerce giant for the first time has filed lawsuits against counterfeit sellers, after a number of businesses on Amazon voiced...
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An iPhone made in the US? Apple is considering it….
Apple has reportedly asked key iPhone manufacturer,partners, namely Foxconn and Pegatron, to investigate ways to bring the iPhone assembly supply chain into the United States. Today, all iPhones (and...
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Ford NOT moving Lincoln SUV to Mexico
By David Shepardson | WASHINGTON On Thursday, Trump posted on Twitter: “I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the Lincoln plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great State of Kentucky for their...
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Trump tells manufacturers he will cut regulations, taxes, but must reshore
Reuters By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump met with a dozen American manufacturers at the White House on Monday, pledging to slash regulations and cut corporate...
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Auto Chiefs Concerned with NAFTA Stance
The auto industry has warned that significant changes to the so-called rules of origin could undercut the president’s America-first goals. Top executives from Detroit automakers met Monday with Vice...
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Adam Reiser: Trump administration struggles to enforce ‘Buy American’ EO 13788
Nearly eight months after President Donald J. Trump signed his executive order “Buy American and Hire American,” an expert on certifying whether goods are made in the United States shared with Big...
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USDA’s School Lunch program must now comply with the recently signed E.O. 13788
Buy American Act Certified On April 18th, 2017, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order #13788 into effect reinforcing the Buy American Act and requiring the US government to start implementing...
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`Made in the U.S.A.’ Turbines Cloud U.S. Offshore Wind
With state officials eyeing $56 billion of wind farm projects off the American coastline, developers are worried the turbines will need to be stamped with a big “Made in the U.S.A.” Each structure is...
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