An incomplete assessment of production costs led to the demise of an already efficient manufacturing plant in Sweden. Here’s how total cost of ownership and …
Asia’s exporters are already fretting about unrelated developments that might begin to push global manufacturers to “reshore” activities, notably the replacement of human workers with industrial robots. Now trade frictions threaten to accelerate the same …
making it increasingly lucrative for American firms to reshore. In recent years, major multinationals like Nike Inc., Adidas AG, Nikon Corp., and Microsoft Corp. have closed down their Chinese factories. There is an idiom in Chinese of “asking a tiger …
The report includes cumulative data from 2010 through 2017, as well as projections for 2018. According to founder Harry Moser, the numbers demonstrate that reshoring and FDI are major contributing factors to the country’s rebounding manufacturing sector.
according to the latest report from the Reshoring Initiative. Last year, more than 171,000 manufacturing jobs were added to the U.S. workforce, up 2,800% from 2010. Including upward revisions of 67,000 jobs in prior years, the total number of manufacturing …
Tonelson lauds President Trump’s efforts to “reshore” production and jobs to the United States that were offshored to China and elsewhere. He points to the benefits that are already accruing due to Trump’s earlier tariffs on solar panels and …
We observe from our 2017 data on reshoring, combined with other Reshoring Initiative reports, that: • It is now clear that U.S. manufacturing, including foreign-owned plants, can be started up or grown to support a substantial flow of work back to the U …
The Reshoring Initiative largely attributes the huge increases to anticipation of greater U.S. competitiveness due to expected corporate tax and regulatory cuts following the 2016 election. Similar to the previous few years, FDI continued to exceed …