Manufacturing Jobs and Income Decline

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After the year 2000, US manufacturing employment experienced a rapid, unprecedented decline with the loss of some six million manufacturing jobs. Many commentators have described this as a normal, even healthy evolution, with workers allegedly moving into “jobs of the future” in the service sector. After the year 2000, US manufacturing employment experienced a rapid,…

Commerce self-initiates first multi-country circumvention probe

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Editor’s note: The Chinese are working hard to circumvent the tariffs by trans-shipping through other countries. Wilbur Ross and the Department of Commerce are responding.  The Commerce Department on Wednesday announced it is self-initiating a first-of-its-kind probe of whether corrosion-resistant steel products from several countries is circumventing U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties. [August 14, 2019…