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Robots threaten jobs in poor countries—Unctad

November 12, 2016
Reshoring has also been slow to happen and hasn’t yet undermined continued offshoring. As opposed to offshoring, reshoring sees companies moving their labor operations back to developed countries, to be carried out by robots or automated systems.
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Shipping Recovery Prospects Test Investor Nerves

November 11, 2016
Factors including increased energy efficiency, slowing containerization demand and reshoring are all threats. However, the demand side is far from all bad news. “How many ships are needed to meet demand projections is a function of multiple factors …
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UN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of All Workers in the Developing World

November 10, 2016
Reshoring is the act of bringing back domestic manufacturing to a country. It is already happening today but according to the report, it’s happening in a slow pace. This, of course, brings up the issue of alleviating the impact that the robots have on …
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Smithers Pira Forecasts 17.5% Annual Growth for Digital Textile Print

November 10, 2016
Global textile industry dynamics are changing and the importance of Asian economies continues to increase, though there is also some backshoring/reshoring of production to North America and Europe to ensure quality in high-value applications. The parallel …
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American Manufacturing Needs More Energy, Not Less

November 10, 2016
SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Harry Moser, founder and president of the Reshoring Initiative, which aims to bring manufacturing back home, is optimistic. He told me that we are now losing about as many jobs to offshoring as we are recovering. “We’ve gone …
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Digital textile printing to grow by 17.5% annually until 2021

November 10, 2016
Global textile industry dynamics are changing and the importance of Asian economies continues to increase, though there is also some backshoring/reshoring of production to North America and Europe to ensure quality in high-value applications. The parallel …
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Trump Promises a Fiscal Boom and a Surging Dollar, if He Can Control Himself

November 9, 2016
This means that in developing countries – such as Mexico and many countries in Asia – those engaged in export activities in these two sectors are the most exposed to reshoring. By contrast, in many labourintensive industries, such as garment-making …
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Reshoring trend continues in UK

November 9, 2016
Tooling and mould component manufacturers are reporting a rise in demand from UK companies, as work is reshored from countries in the Far East, such as China. But however much work they can take on in the UK they say this is being hampered by the current …
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United States of America – Trade Policy and Trump

November 9, 2016
It would be interesting to know. During the presidential campaign Mr Trump’s clear message was to reshore jobs lost in the wake of globalization and free trade deals that had negatively impacted the US job market especially in the manufacturing sector.
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Shipping market recovery faces multiple demand-supply challenges

November 9, 2016
Factors including increased energy efficiency, slowing containerisation demand and reshoring are all threats. However, the demand side is far from all bad news. “How many ships are needed to meet demand projections is a function of multiple factors …
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