‘Buy American’ Seen as a Boon to LOCAL ManufacturERS
“U.S. industrial capacities are key to our economic and national security. Every dollar spent on American-made materials supports the U.S. economy at multiple levels,” Tim McKernan, facility manager at EJ…
Rep. DeFazio urges FTA to enforce Buy American provision
“One of the greatest threats to a strong U.S. transportation manufacturing sector is the rise of predatory Chinese state-owned and -supported enterprises (SOEs), which rely on government-subsidized, below-market pricing to…
NEWSOM SIGNS SEN. CABALLERO’S ‘BUY AMERICAN’ FOOD BILL
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed SB 490, the bill from Sen. Anna Caballero that would require schools receiving federal funding for prepared meals to purchase domestically produced food products….
Smithfield Foods to Pay $75 Million in Pork Price-Fixing Settlement
The Smithfield, Virginia company is a unit of Hong Kong-listed WH Group ltd, which calls itself the world’s largest pork company. Several companies have faced lawsuits in Minneapolis and Chicago…
Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s
Ever since American manufacturing entered a long stretch of automation and outsourcing in the late 1970s, every recession has led to the loss of factory jobs that never returned. But…
Tell Warren Buffet to divest Chinese-owned electric car company
BYD is a China-based EV automobile company and stands for “Build Your Dreams.” The “dream” of this Chinese company to enter the U.S. market should never become a reality. Unfortunately,…
Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Ensure Inventions Funded by DHS S&T Are Manufactured in U.S.
U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) have introduced the bipartisan Invent Here, Make Here for Homeland Security…
China may now have air superiority over US in Pacific
China’s jet fighter force may have already caught up with the quality and quantity of the US, prompting new urgent calls in Washington to build up and modernize the US…
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Others, tell congress they’ll leave china if told
After two days of being grilled by the House and Senate, executives of the biggest banks in the country really opened up most during a long House Financial Services Committee…
Ford breaks ground on $5.6 billion Tennessee mega-campus
Ford Motor Co. has officially broken ground on BlueOval City, the $5.6 billion electric-vehicle assembly, battery production and supplier campus the automaker is building in West Tennessee with a joint-venture…