Why U.S. Gunmakers Could Soon Face New Competition
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…
REVIEWING THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT & JOBS ACT FOR WATER & WASTEWATER
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…
Local businessman gets jail time for fraud, selling Chinese goods to government
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…
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai Visits Milliken & Company And American & Efird In Visit Highlighting U.S. Textile Industry
“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…
Manufacturers push for PPE made in the U.S. amid changing legal landscape, Chinese industry dominance
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…
Made In America Stores Poised To Overcome Supply Chain Issues As The Christmas Holiday Season Approaches
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,…
New Balance Under Fire Over ‘Made in the USA’ Claims
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…
Executives Finally Admit Their Supply Chains Are Broken
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…
Why your iPhone may never be Made in the USA
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…