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- Playing Our Game, Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West A very well written book about China’s emergence as an economic player 9
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- Buy American Challenge Blog urging us to do what I am urging us to do: Buy American! 0
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- Great blog about U.S. made apparel for women Learn about great american made women’s clothes 0
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- Americans at Work Amazing website listing hundreds of American manufacturers 0
- Find US Made Website for all things Made in America 0
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- Made in USA Challenge Great little site from a kindred spirit 0
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Top Ten Made in America holiday gifts for 2011
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Category Archives: Trade
Low hanging fruit
Growing up, my family was never big on pies. My mum was not much of a baker. But when I got married, I married into a pie family. The Bernoskis love pies, especially apple pies. Apples are a big deal … Continue reading
Shining a light on an interesting subject
Made in America. It is an important value for me. And to a lot of other Americans as well. And as one might imagine, the issue of what is a Made in America product is not without a little controversy. I … Continue reading
I think it’s coming in for a landing!
Boeing and Seattle are synonymous. Growing up in Seattle, it seemed like half of my buddies’ fathers worked for Boeing. Lots of Boeing Engineers, some production line guys, one or two test pilots. When Boeing decided to move its headquarters to … Continue reading
Pitter patter of little feet II
Seattle is the second busiest port on the west coast after Los Angeles. As you might imagine, lots of Chinese goods enter the U.S. through the Port of Seattle. Recently, one particular shipment of Chinese goods into Seattle was in … Continue reading
Posted in China, shoes, Trade
Tagged Chinese products, Made in the USA, Port of Seattle, recalls of chinese products
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It’s the Chinese this time, not the British
What are American manufacturing jobs worth? What should be done to keep them in this country? What can we do to keep them in this country? I came across an interesting article in the New York Times about Revere Copper Products the other day. … Continue reading
Get in line!
Reshoring. Not the most elegant word, but a word that I love hearing. More and more firms are joining the movement of moving the production of their products back to the U.S. Reshoring is the phenomenon of American firms moving … Continue reading
Posted in american made, Apple, China, Made in America, made in usa, Outsourcing, Reshoring, Trade
Tagged Boston Consulting Group, China, Made in America, Made in the USA, Manufacturing, Reshoring, Washington Post
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Bucking the conventional wisdom
The statistics are fairly brutal. America has lost over seven and a half million manufacturing jobs since 1979. We lost two million between 1979 and 1999, almost three and a half million between 1999 and 2007 and an additional two million … Continue reading
It’s all how you look at it
I came across an interesting graph at the always outstanding Alliance for American Manufacturing blog. Now, if you looked at the right hand side of the graph, you might say, “not bad!” Last month the U.S. gained 16,000 jobs in manufacturing. This year, … Continue reading
Posted in american made, China, Made in America, made in usa, Trade
Tagged Alliance for American Manufacturing, China, EPI, Made in America, Made in the USA, Trade, Trade Balance
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An import by any other name?
I came across an interesting article in Businessweek the other day. The article talked about a new book by Alan Uke called Buying America Back. In his book Uke urges a revision to the consumer product labeling system run by the Federal … Continue reading
Posted in american made, China, Made in America, made in usa, Trade
Tagged Country of origin, Federal Trade Commission, made in usa, Trade, Trade Balance
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Let’s do our part!
Less imported consumer goods = more jobs for members of our extended American family. This message was delivered by renowned economist and author Robert Aliber, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business at a recent economic forum. Aliber stated … Continue reading
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