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Trade Is More Powerful Than Donald Trump

January 26, 2017
U.S. manufacturing has for the most part been “reshoring” in the past two years, where U.S. exports to Mexico have been growing. In other words, Trump’s proposed NAFTA reforms aren’t going to change much. That’s not to say that there will be no …
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Climate and trade policy in a new era: Options ahead

January 25, 2017
What might reshoring bring about in terms of environmental impact? The jobs reshored will never look the same as those once loss. We are at a critical cusp in terms of digitalisation, automation, and artificial intelligence. Could reshoring, if it really …
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Gearing up

January 25, 2017
According to research by the non-profit organization Reshoring Initiative, some 249,000 jobs were moved back in the five years up to the end of 2015. This was more than the 220,000 that left between 2000 to 2003, seen as the peak period for offshoring …
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City ranked high as distribution center site

January 24, 2017
“A big plus for Rocky Mount area is transportation infrastructure, which is very important because it ties into reshoring because manufacturing jobs are coming back to the states, he said. “Manufacturers are reluctant to deal with potential tariffs …
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Why Donald Trump is inadvertently going to accelerate the rise of robots

January 24, 2017
Not all of this is because of automation, but it will play a part. Companies reshoring to the US will not just rethink their manufacturing processes either. They will look to reduce costs across the business. That could well mean automating other areas of …
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Honor Roll: St. John’s Lutheran School

January 24, 2017
FOURTH GRADE: Bowe, McKenna; Contreras, Jackson; DeGroot, Rian; Friesema, Eli; Guziewicz, Ella; Kading, Sofie; Kellner, Julia; Moser, Gavin; Orta, Mario; Paulick, Kenny; Polack, Harry; Roehrig, Parker; Rosborough, Ally; Rosso, Jaime; Schneider, Hayden …
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Reshoring and leveling the manufacturing playing field

January 24, 2017
Data from the Reshoring Initiative suggests that in the U.S. alone there has been an average loss of 220,000 manufacturing jobs per year, totaling 3 to 4 million manufacturing jobs lost to offshoring initiatives since 2000. This directly contributes $500 …
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PE, trade and tariffs

January 24, 2017
Exports of PVC from the region also declined from 31.7 percent to 31.3 percent. But in the long run, tariffs might be “an unlikely policy choice,” according to Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative. Moser’s firm helps U.S …
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Will Trump Deregulate Employment to Create New Jobs, Gigs or What?

January 24, 2017
But there are questions that we can ask, such as: If there is a border tax and reshoring of American manufacturing, what kinds of new jobs will there be, given broader labor market trends and whatever regulatory regime is in place? If marginal returns on …
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Customer Service and Predictions for 2017

January 24, 2017
With the demand for voice calls reducing, but the nature of these interactions becoming more complex, repatriation, or ‘reshoring’ is becoming an increasingly deployed strategy by UK brands. Quality, not quantity, is now the name of the game and blue …
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