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Pragmatists, Radicals Vie on U.S. Trade Policy

March 16, 2017
They also need to develop strategies for a variety of scenarios such as shifting to suppliers in another country, reshoring production to the United States, and passing along additional costs to the consumer. Exporters are also at risk. Trading partners …
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Trump’s “America First” budget will leave the economy running behind

March 16, 2017
Despite this, the president’s budget calls for the elimination of EDA. The Trump method of reshoring manufacturing jobs is also far more expensive than building the competitiveness of the sector. When the president negotiated Carrier away from leaving …
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Building a Resilient Business Inspired by Biology

March 16, 2017
First, the potential for economic arbitrage is decreasing as a result of narrowing labor cost differentials across nations and increasing capital intensity of production, leading to a discernible trend of reshoring production. Direct-cost differentials in …
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GreenLeaf Industries, Interviewed by Fox News about the U.S. President’s Commitment to Bring Back American Jobs

March 15, 2017
Preceding the President’s visit to Tennessee this week, the reshoring campaign was noticed by Fox & Friends which resulted in a televised national interview between GreenLeaf Industries’ Business Development Manager, Robert Segrest, and Fox’s highly …
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Why drones will deliver a boom for warehouses

March 15, 2017
Fund manager Gervais Williams recommended A&J Mucklow in MoneyWeek last year as a play on “reshoring” – companies bringing their manufacturing activities back to the United Kingdom. Don’t buy that house! The positive climate surrounding the buy-to …
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America may miss out on the next industrial revolution

March 14, 2017
Rendall sees this as a chance for America to realign its investments and priorities. “We have the opportunity to do something meaningful about reshoring manufacturing,” he said. “The jobs that come back to the US are really only going to work if …
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Natalie Bennett: When business rises to the green challenge we all prosper

March 13, 2017
And we can use green spaces in our cities, towns and villages to grow for ourselves, families and communities. With “reshoring” a growing trend, as the fragility of global supply chains links with rising developing world wages, Yorkshire is in a great …
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Shoe manufacturing may come back to America, but the jobs may not

March 12, 2017
The solution, then, is to reshore American manufacturing, but find somewhere to cut costs. Since the largest cost is labor, cutting down the workforce significantly would be prudent. Enter automation. Essentially, shoe manufacturing is already on its way …
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Vodafone brings offshore contact centre work to UK

March 12, 2017
He said the reshoring of the call centre jobs will bring the companies consumer mobile customer services in line with its UK-based call centres for UK business and broadband customers. Vodafone said in a statement: “As part of its £2bn investment …
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Trump is pushing ‘Buy American.’ But customers (mostly) don’t care

March 12, 2017
For baby formula they’ll pay a lot more. For shoes, they won’t. “Clothing is one of the things that is very hard to reshore. It’s a tough road to go,” says Hal Sirkin, a senior partner at BCG. Overall, BCG estimates companies can charge up to …
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