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…
Not going to try the Impossible: Several South Dakota schools set to use local meat, not fake meat
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…
House Should Swiftly Pass Senate Bill to Accelerate Delisting of Non-Compliant Chinese Companies from U.S. Exchanges
“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…