Though much of what we wear, carry in our pockets and use at home is made overseas, not everything we buy is imported. Buying USA-made goods is a popular idea, but that belief doesn’t always … Read More
Ford Motor Co. unveiled a $5.8 billion plan to build twin battery manufacturing plants in Kentucky that will create 5,000 full-time jobs, which will make batteries for electric vehicles such as its new F-150 Lightning … Read More
Kentucky Sen. Chris McDaniel vowed to pursue legislation to try to recoup the state’s $15 million investment in the troubled company formerly known as Braidy Industries, which hasn’t been able to secure enough financing to … Read More
Over 150 fashion manufacturers and fashion brands have officially endorsed the Garment Worker Protection Act, including Saitex, the sustainable denim maker for global giants like J. Crew, Target, and Ralph Lauren which onshored to L.A. … Read More
CZG bought out Colt’s Manufacturing Company in early 2021. Under U.S. law, only companies manufacturing guns in the U.S. can compete for American military contracts. CZG’s president Lubomír Kovařík noted how the Colt acquisition provides … Read More
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, Sept. 27, 2021. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a $1 trillion bill … Read More
A Rensselaer County businessman who illegally sold Chinese-manufactured backpacks, T-shirts, duffel bags and other supplies to the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security and claimed the products were made in America will … Read More
“Milliken & Company and American & Efird (A&E) maintains a significant manufacturing footprint in the Carolinas with 1,200 total associates, and we contribute significantly to our local community and the entire manufacturing base in the … Read More
Giles Kyser, CEO of Brooklyn-based American PAPE, says 96 percent of the component parts of his company’s respirators are manufactured in the United States and depend on a 17-state supply chain to produce. This percentage … Read More
By now, most Americans have noticed that store shelves are not stocked as full as they used to be pre-Covid. Whether it’s a shortage of workers or shortage of parts, most retailers are finding it … Read More
New Balance has long emblazoned its products with proclamations that they are “Made in the USA.” But consumer watchdog group Truth in Advertising (TINA) is hitting back at the Boston-based footwear brand with an official complaint … Read More
In his testimony to the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission on September 8, international trade lawyer Dan Harris said that “Virtually all my clients who have their products manufactured in China would like … Read More
CEO Tim Cook, pledged in April that Apple will spend $430 billion on US investments that’ll add 20,000 jobs in the United States over the next five years to work on 5G wireless, artificial intelligence and … Read More
The Wall School district will not be serving “Impossible Food” items to their students anytime soon. In fact the head cook, Lynn Dunker, said the school will again be serving beef that was born, raised … Read More
“There is no reason why Speaker Pelosi should delay any further a vote on the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which would speed up the clock for non-compliant Chinese companies to either follow U.S. law … Read More
For the most part, the U.S. is far behind Australia and Japan on reshoring efforts, noted Dan Harris, a partner at the Harris Bricken law firm and the main writer behind the ChinaLaw blog. Those two … Read More
A Proposed Rule amending the Buy American Act (“BAA”) of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (“FAR”), designed to benefit U.S. manufacturers, proposes to immediately increase the threshold needed to be considered a “domestic end product” or … Read More
Two Georgia companies and their owners have agreed to pay $900,000 to resolve allegations that they provided unapproved substitute parts to the U.S. Army and that they violated the Buy American Act. Read the article … Read More
President Joe Biden’s administration continues to hone its Made in America policy with the goal of boosting U.S.-based manufacturing. American steel manufacturers and their unions are among the biggest cheerleaders for the recent proposed rule … Read More
The meat-processors are generating record profits during the pandemic, at the expense of consumers, farmers, and ranchers. During the pandemic, wholesale prices for beef rose much faster than input prices for cattle. Read the article … Read More
This notion of consumer patriotism isn’t unique to 9/11. American colonists boycotted British goods and were expected to buy American during the Revolutionary War; in the 1920s and ’30s, there was a push to buy American fashions. The US … Read More
If most of those items were made here, “it would add up to tens of thousands of jobs,” Garamendi said. “We’ve all heard about supply chain disruptions in PPE, in cars. Here, we’re talking about … Read More
Why are people like sheep? China is one of our biggest enemies and we send them millions of dollars to manufacture our clothing. When are Americans going to get smart and not be followers, but … Read More
In fact, in the past five years, a whopping 69 percent of all new U.S. manufacturing jobs were created by international companies. That does not even include recent announcements like the 400 new union jobs being added at Mack Trucks. Read … Read More