9/11 Anniversary 2012: New York Ceremony Held For September 11
By JENNIFER PELTZ 09/11/12 08:09 AM ET NEW YORK — America gathered again Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks with familiar ceremony, but also a sense that it's time to move…
Western Cattlemen Sue WTO & USA
By PHILIP A. JANQUART Thursday, September 06, 2012 DENVER (CN) - Western ranchers sued the World Trade Organization in Federal Court, challenging its power to rule, as it did, that the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling…
Chinese Manufacturing Is Crashing
Beijing reported that China produced a record amount of steel in July, but prices are plunging and steelmakers have been defaulting on agreements to purchase iron ore. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) 8/26/2012 Gordon G.…
Growing U.S. trade deficit with China cost 2.7 million jobs between 2001 and 2011
By Robert E. Scott | August 23, 2012 The China toll: A Report By The Economic Policy Institute The U.S. trade deficit with China eliminated or displaced more than 2.7 million U.S. jobs between 2001 and 2011, a…
China Escalates U.S. Trade Row, Asks WTO to Judge Dispute
By Tom Miles August 23, 2012 Aug 23 (Reuters) - In a move that escalates a trade row with the United States, China said it would ask the World Trade Organization (WTO) to adjudicate a dispute over U.S. punitive import…
China Says U.S. Support for Clean Energy Violates WTO Rules
Aug 20, 2012 BEIJING Aug 20 (Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry said on Monday the United States must cut support for six government-backed renewable energy programmes or face unspecified penalties, in the latest…
China Confronts Mounting Piles of Unsold Goods
Bags of toys stored at a shop in a wholesale market in Guangzhou, a city in southeast China. | Photo Credit: Forbes Conrad for The New York Times
By KEITH BRADSHERAugust 24, 2012 GUANGZHOU, China - After three decades…
Study Predicts Impact of On-Shoring in North American Electronics Industry
BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA, August 15, 2012 — Electronics manufacturing operations with a total value of at least $2.5 billion are expected to be brought to North America in the next three years, according to a much-anticipated…
Voters Want U.S. Manufacturing Back
Written bySCOTT PAUL Iowans are seeing a lot of both presidential candidates this summer, and the campaign stops are sure to get even more frequent between now and Election Day. Political pundits predict the race to…
Reshoring Jobs in The Furniture Industry
Reported by: Wayne HerefordEmail: whereford@wtva.com STARKVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) -- The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Mississippi lost over 9,000 furniture manufacturing jobs between the years 2006 and…