Intel announced last week it will spend $20 billion building two new fabs in Arizona to take it into the foundry business, aiming to make chips for large, important customers like Apple, Microsoft or Qualcomm. That’s good news, but it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem of US dependency on Asia for the manufacture of chips.…
Suez Canal blockage another blow to Asia-centric supply chains.
Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program seeks Senior Executive. Applications due by April 22.
If the White House believes we are facing a climate emergency, then the Biden administration will have to work overtime explaining why outsourcing pollution to China is a good idea. We can produce those goods here, with a smaller carbon footprint.
Three members of Congress representing both parties are writing legislation to help domestic enterprises post-pandemic.
On day two of the CPA Annual Conference, three members of Congress tout origin labeling on everything from food to leather boots. More importantly, a call to fix Buy American Act rules once and for all.
On day two of the CPA Annual Conference, Mike Dolan of the Teamsters recants the anti-globalist origin story and everybody loves it.
CPA Trade Counsel argues that if not for tariffs, Volvo wouldn’t be making cars in Charleston. We’d have Buick Envision-type deals of Detroit automakers making in China instead.
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,…
