On December 6, 2012, the United States, the European Union, and Japan formally requested the establishment of a WTO panel to resolve their simmering trade disputes with Argentina. According to Ambassador Ron Kirk, the U.S. Trade Representative, “Argentina’s persistent use of import restrictions broadly impacts all U.S. exporters of goods to Argentina.” E.U. Trade […]

While most of the ever-increasing confrontational political climate generating from the nation’s capital tends to relate to the fabricated “middle class” versus “fat cat” antagonism, there is an even more heated adversity brewing between the nation’s “small businesses” versus the big corporations. Although these two major driving forces of the U.S. economy have co-existed […]

Murmurings about whether the American manufacturing renaissance is driven by much more than an explosion of cheap shale gas recently made their way into the pages The Atlantic. The so-called ‘insourcing boom’ is a real phenomenon, but it has neither demonstrated itself to be substantial or sustainable and is vulnerable to the relative weakness of […]

Keith: ‘The explosive growth of the emerging market consumer in Asia has more than made up for the slightly diminished attractiveness of China as a new or incremental outsourced manufacturing destination for western OEMs.’ There was so much noise coming out of Washington in 2012 about the fiscal cliff, budget deficits, taxes and […]