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China says policies unaffected by Trump plan to bring factories back to U.S.

February 16, 2017
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China is closely following U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to create more domestic jobs by encouraging U.S. companies to bring home or “reshore” their overseas production, but the government will not change its overall …
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China says policies unaffected by Trump plan to bring factories back to US

February 16, 2017
BEIJING: China is closely following US President Donald Trump’s plans to create more domestic jobs by encouraging US companies to bring home or “reshore” their overseas production, but the government will not change its overall strategy, Industry …
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Trump wants to enact an expensive, ridiculous regulation — but no one’s calling it what it is

February 16, 2017
So the Trump administration could easily throw another requirement into this “Buy American” mix — reshoring a company’s global supply chain. Let’s call a policy like this what it is: an onerous regulation that could cost companies a ton of money.
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Does US outsourcing have a Mickey Mouse future?

February 16, 2017
In the next few years, there may be bigger changes in America’s workforce, but higher wages and reshoring American animation jobs is anything but “Mickey Mouse”! About the Author Chris Niccolls is a New York-based operations, productivity and …
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How to Win a Trade War With China

February 16, 2017
In fact, more and more American manufacturers are in the process of “reshoring,” or shifting production back to the U.S. from China. That’s not to say China is no longer a danger to the U.S. Just the opposite. The two countries are still engaged in a …
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MSSC Lists Highest Geographic Concentrations of Its Certifications for Front-line Work in Manufacturing …

February 16, 2017
Harry Moser, President and Founder of the Reshoring Initiative, concurs. He notes, “There is no question that the availability of a higher skilled workforce is now one of the top factors for those making plant location decisions, including when reshoring.”
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Trump’s Protectionist Measures Will Not Hurt U.S. Economy In 2017

February 15, 2017
This could result in companies “reshoring” – a term broadly used to define movement of manufacturing from other countries back to the US. Even before his inauguration as President, Trump had strongly criticised US companies for locating production plants …
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Trade and Trump: The US economy in 2017

February 15, 2017
Nandini Rao argues that at least in the short term, the US economy might benefit from Trump’s policies. “As more companies favour reshoring over offshoring, and thereby expand manufacturing in the US, in the short-term, this could lead to higher …
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Op-Ed | Trump Trade Speculation Adds More Uncertainty to Fragile Industry

February 15, 2017
But returning production to America would be even more of a challenge — it would be next to impossible to reshore apparel manufacturing. The costs are too high, and we lack the labour, the capacity and the raw materials… to begin enumerating a very …
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The rise of the robots – is it a brave new world?

February 15, 2017
“The benefit of this is you can reshore some of the manufacturing here. You can do it more cheaply than in China because you won’t have the same labour costs.” Prof Prescott says Yorkshire can play a big part in this latter day industrial revolution.
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