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S. Korean trade minister calls attention to Trump’s infrastructure plan

November 27, 2016
“Collaborative activities like joint R&D, people-to-people exchanges, M&As and direct investment will not only strengthen partnerships between our business communities, but they will also help U.S. manufacturing and reshoring initiatives,” Joo said.
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Tackle Trump & the Fed with These Cyclical Sector ETFs

November 27, 2016
Industrial stocks should perform well if Trump’s promises to bring manufacturing jobs back to America are kept (read: Manufacturing Reshoring Ahead? ETFs to Profit). The technology sector bounced back lately after skidding on Trump win as uncertainties …
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Promises Trump Can’t Keep

November 27, 2016
In fact, Trump may not even be aware that the latest trend in US business is not offshoring but reshoring. Many companies have brought their operations back to the US not out of patriotic feelings, but because of the same cost calculations. US-based robots …
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A License to Print: How Real is the Risk Posed by 3D Printed Guns?

November 27, 2016
This could certainly raise alarm and hint at a new era of disorganised and decentralised weapons production, and a burgeoning “reshoring” of weapon manufacturing as an alternative to importation from overseas. But the fact is that 3D printing …
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A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?

November 27, 2016
This could certainly raise alarm and hint at a new era of disorganised and decentralised weapons production, and a burgeoning “reshoring” of weapon manufacturing as an alternative to importation from overseas. But the fact is that 3D printing …
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The role of human factors in the future of manufacturing

November 26, 2016
Human factors and ergonomics have a key role to play in reshoring manufacturing back to the UK. Wright explained: “While technology has the ability to increase productivity and reduce costs, it’s human factors that will enable us to fully integrate our …
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US manufacturing is alive and well, but not creating jobs

November 26, 2016
Even so, the companies that need low-cost labour will find it outside the US. The Reshoring Initiative, which advises companies on relocating production to the US, estimates that such moves have created 265,000 jobs since the start of 2010: about 5 per …
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Donald Trump’s appeal to company brass seen as high-risk gambit

November 25, 2016
“There could be a demonstration effect.” Roughly 60,000 manufacturing jobs were moved out of the country last year, according to the Reshoring Initiative, a group that tries to bring jobs back to the U.S. Still, Evans added, hope is slipping.
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Global Trade conference underway in Morocco

November 24, 2016
He added: ‘But the robotics revolution is causing reshoring of labour-intensive sectors. So we need new sustainable avenues to leap out of poverty. For countries to break out of the traditional basket of export products […] there must be synergies …
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US Analysis: Trump Won’t “Bring Back Millions of Jobs”

November 24, 2016
These diverging lines—which reflect improved productivity—highlight a huge problem with Trump’s promises to help workers by reshoring millions of manufacturing jobs. America is already producing a lot. And in any event, the return of more …
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