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How much could the return of factory jobs add up to? – Marketplace.org

April 17, 2016
How much could the return of factory jobs add up to?  Marketplace.org

This election season, we’ve heard Republican and Democratic presidential candidates alike decry international trade deals for sending manufacturing jobs …

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The State of On-Shoring: The Problem of China

April 17, 2016
In order to help companies decide objectively to reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. or offshore, the not-for-profit Reshoring Initiative’s free TCO Estimator can help corporations calculate the real P&L impact of reshoring or offshoring. TCO can be …
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129 endangered tortoises return to Madagascar

April 17, 2016
Government of India had taken up the matter with the CITES Management Authority of Madagascar and Madagascar Authorities of TSA in coordinating with the WCCB in repatriating the tortoises to Madagascar,” said M Maranko, regional deputy director (WCCB …
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Coast Guard returns 39 Cubans found at sea

April 16, 2016
Coast Guard cutter Isaac Mayo took them aboard Monday and gave them food and water before repatriating them. “Safety of life at sea continues to be the Coast Guard’s primary concern,” said Capt. Mark Gordon of the Coast Guard’s 7th District. “The dangerous …
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Pitch made in the USA products to Walmart, deals can be made on the spot

April 15, 2016
Walmart is going to meet its commitment in a variety of ways, including buying more from existing domestic suppliers, doing business with new domestic suppliers and helping current suppliers reshore their oversea production.
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US factory output fell again in March

April 14, 2016
A substantial portion of the overall decrease in March resulted from declines in the indexes for mining and utilities, which fell 2.9% and 1.2%, respectively; in addition, manufacturing output fell 0.3%. The February IP reading was revised lower to -0.6% …
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Texprocess Americas 2016 Will Have 25% More Exhibitors than Two Years Ago

April 14, 2016
Industry leaders throughout the sewn products supply chain will also contribute to a talk on the challenges currently facing reshoring and how to overcome them. For more information on all eight sessions and their speakers (plus three additional bonus …
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Don’t do DevOps? Your organisation will get left behind, warns QA’s David Njogu

April 13, 2016
DevOps has also coincided with the rise of onshoring, notes Njogu, as organisations bring development, in particular, back in-house and back closer to the centre of the action. The reasons for this are two-fold: with IT development shifting from long …
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Top 50 US companies hold $1.4 trillion in cash offshore

April 13, 2016
Oxfam outlined a range of tricks, tools, and loopholes companies use to avoid paying tax, including “earnings stripping”, inversions and avoiding repatriating their foreign profits back to the US. The organization underlined that most of the local …
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It’s time for tough talk on trade

April 13, 2016
They generally remain die-hard defenders of free-trade ideology and repeat a narrative that trade always benefits both importers and exporters, that it had nothing to do with the US manufacturing sector losing a third of its jobs in the 2000s, and that the …
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