Chinese Safety Concern Empties Distant Shelves of Infant Formula
MATT SIEGELJanuary, 2013 SYDNEY, Australia — A surge in sales of one of Australia’s most popular brands of infant formula has led to an unusual sight for this wealthy nation: barren shelves in the baby aisle and…
Made in America, Again: Bringing Manufacturing Jobs Back to The U.S. is Politically Savvy and Can Make Economic Sense.
Offshore labor: A worker in a Foxconn factory assembles consumer electronics for U.S. markets. Antonio RegaladoJanuary 2013 At a dinner for Silicon Valley big shots in February 2011, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take…
Recall Alert: IMS Trading Corp Voluntarily Recall Cadet Brand Chicken Jerky Treat Products
Brandy ArnoldJanuary 11, 2013 IMS Trading Corp announced it is voluntarily withdrawing its Cadet Brand Chicken Jerky Treat products sold in the United States until further notice. In the wake of massive Chinese chicken jerky dog…
Can America Step Up To a Manufacturing Renaissance?
Alexander Liddington-CoxJanuary, 2013 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.…
Manufacturing in The Balance: Inexpensive Labor Has Defined The Last Decade in Manufacturing. The Future May Belong to Technology.
Antonio RegaladoJanuary 2013 When General Electric expanded manufacturing of home heaters and refrigerators at its facility in Kentucky last year, the reasons included big wage concessions the company had won from…
Manufacturing Reshoring
Jerry Jasinowski
Fmr. President of the National Association of Manufacturers
January 8, 2013
While the immediate prospects of the U.S. economy are bleak, and nothing happening in Washington suggests an early improvement, there is more…
Mr. China Comes to America
JAMES FALLOWS For decades, every trend in manufacturing favored the developing world and worked against the United States. But new tools that greatly speed up development from idea to finished product encourage start-up…
The Case For and Against ‘Made in the USA’
Juergen KneifelJanuary 7, 2013 There's a new craze that hit the airwaves this past holiday season intended to save jobs and reenergize American manufacturing. Blame it on an unnamed economist whose calculations have…
Is There Any Hope For America? Absolutely!
MARGARET WENTEJanuary 2013 Washington’s epic battle over the “fiscal cliff” would be tragic if it weren’t so pathetic. It reminds me of a cartoon in which the duelling combatants hurl themselves off the precipice and keep fighting…
US Tariff Bill To Cut Manufacturers' Costs
Mike GodfreyTax-News.comJanuary 3, 2013 Congressional leaders from the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee have introduced, on a bipartisan basis, a bill to provide temporary import tariff relief and,…
