Tag Archives: Trade Deficit

How to Save U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

By Howard Wial @CNNMoney February 23, 2012: 5:34 AM ET Howard Wial is a fellow for the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. At first glance, manufacturing jobs would appear to be a dying breed. The United States lost 6 million manufacturing jobs between early 2001 and late 2009. And despite small gains during the last two years, [...]

This Column Was 100% Made in America

By STUART ELLIOTT  Published: February 15, 2012 BLUE-COLLAR workers in fields like manufacturing — particularly when they make products on American soil — are again becoming a favorite subject for white-collar workers on Madison Avenue. The trend was born of the economic worries that followed the financial crisis in 2008. Recently, it is gaining steam — appropriate, [...]

Obama Takes Fresh Aim at China, Touts “Insourcing”

  By Laura MacInnis | Reuters MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama kept up his attack on Chinese trade practices during a campaign-style visit on Wednesday to a Midwest factory, where his call to bring jobs back home was intended to resonate with voters in an election year. The day after meeting China’s leader-in-waiting, Vice President Xi Jinping, at the White House, Obama cited America’s [...]

Can Manufacturing Jobs Come Back? What We Should Learn From Apple and Foxconn

David Paul – President, Fiscal Strategies Group  -  Posted: 02/13/2012 8:30 am Apple aficionados suffered a blow a couple of weeks ago. All of those beautiful products, it turns out, are the product of an industrial complex that is nothing if not one step removed from slave labor. But of course there is nothing new [...]

Dumping China for American Job Shops

By Parija Kavilanz @CNNMoney  February 13, 2012: 11:51 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — U.S. small businesses that initially rushed to Chinese factories to get their products made are now dumping them for American manufacturers. And the shift is gaining traction, said industry experts who match U.S. small companies with domestic firms. Mitch Free, the founder and CEO of [...]

Walmart ‘Great for You’ Healthy Labels: Nutrition Experts Say ‘Devil in the Details’

  BY BRIAN JOHNSON AND ENJOLI FRANCIS  -  WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2012 As Walmart announced plans today to label certain foods with a new green “Great for You” label, some diet and nutrition experts told ABC News they applauded the move, while others questioned whether a company that sells food could set objective standards for [...]

Paramount Sleep licenses bedding brands to Cannon Sleep Products

Tuesday, February 07, 2012  By: Furniture World Magazine  Paramount Sleep announced that Fresno, Calif., bedding manufacturer Cannon Sleep Products has licensed its bedding brands. Cannon is licensed to manufacture and distribute the products in California, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. Cannon also has signed a license with Paramount to manufacture and sell A.H. Beard, an Australian luxury [...]

‘Made in China’ Is Starting to Get Too Expensive

By Brian Stoffel for the The Motley Fool   American workers are far, far more productive than their Chinese counterparts. Seem like an overly bold statement to make? Consider a recent study published by the Boston Consulting Group entitled Made in America, Again. The study makes just that assertion. And what happens when you combine lower productivity with [...]

China Raw Material Exports Broke Trade Rules WTO Says

Ruling affects bauxite, coking coal, fluorspar, magnesium, manganese, silicon metal, silicon carbide, yellow phosphorus and zinc. The World Trade Organization on Jan 30. upheld its ruling that Chinese restrictions on key raw material exports broke trade rules following an appeal by Beijing. China must bring its duty and export quota measures on elements including magnesium [...]

Made in USA: 30 Day Journey

Josh Miller of ‘Made in USA: 30 Day Journey‘ is asking us one simple question. “We’re willing to DIE for our country, but are we willing to BUY for it?” Josh and his film crew will set out on a journey in which he will live off USA made products for 30 days. During his [...]

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