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US manufacturing

  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Free LunchTej Parikh
    Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer Premium content

    Donald Trump’s vision to onshore factory jobs reverses decades of progress

    US President Donald Trump speaks outside of the White House
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    News in-depthTrump tariffs
    ‘Stuff should be made here’: Ohio shrugs off Trump tariff turmoil

    Company owners say the president’s measures will result in more manufacturing in the US

    A welder works at Skylift in Lorain, Ohio
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US bike prices will rise ‘up to 50%’ as China trade war escalates

    Cycling industry fears insolvencies and forced mergers in already struggling sector

    Kent International employees install wheels on a bicycle frame in Manning, South Carolina
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    News in-depthTrump tariffs
    Trump’s ‘reshoring’ ambitions threatened by tariff chaos

    Companies have pledged to build factories in the US but are wary of committing long-term investment while trade policy is unclear

    Montage of Donald Trump, pills, workers at a mine, a sign for an electric vehicle battery plant, and a car assembly worker
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Michael Strain
    Trump’s tariffs are an economic emergency for Americans

    Misplaced nostalgia is not a good enough reason for something that will only hurt voters

    US President Donald Trump speaks to an audience at a podium in the White House Rose Garden
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    US factory activity shrinks as tariffs weigh on demand and hiring plans

    Inventories rise to highest level since 2022 as producers stockpile goods

    Workers install components on a RAV4 hybrid sport utility vehicle at a Toyota plant in Kentucky, US
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Business InsightJune Yoon
    Biggest cost from Trump’s tariffs is uncertainty for Asian carmakers

    Companies forced to make billion-dollar bets in face of unpredictable politics

    Rows of new Hyundai vehicles
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    Mike Schmidt
    Repealing the Chips Act risks US national security

    Tariffs alone will not achieve the goal of revitalising domestic semiconductor manufacturing

    A factory sits in a desert area
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    EU defence
    Two-thirds of arms imports to Nato countries in Europe come from US

    Continent’s deep reliance on American-made weapons underscored by Sipri data 

    Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in west Fort Worth.
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Trump needs to find a solution for Intel

    Has the White House given up on trying to create a US national champion in chip manufacturing?

    Pat Gelsinger, chief executive of Intel, holds an AI processor up during a conference
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
    TSMC unveils $100bn US chip investment

    Taiwanese company’s overture to Trump administration marks effort to ward off tariffs on imports

    Signage for TSMC Arizona Corporation Fab 21 is displayed at its fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona. The sign is set against a desert landscape with cacti and shrubs.
  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US manufacturers report fall in orders as growth expectations tumble

    Data fuels fears economy is losing momentum as tariffs loom

    An employee installs lights in an instrument panel at the Dakkota Integrated Systems manufacturing facility in Detroit
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    What happened when Trump imposed steel tariffs in 2018

    The White House responded to lobbying from carmakers with exemptions. The EU went after bourbon

    A worker in protective gear stands beside a blast furnace, with bright orange and yellow flames illuminating the scene at a steel plant
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    News in-depthElectric vehicles
    China’s onetime ‘solar king’ struggles in US electric bus market

    Denton Peng had hoped to replicate his past successes, but roadblocks emerged in his adopted country

    Electric buses on the production line at the Phoenix EV manufacturing facility in Greenville, South Carolina
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    Boeing Company
    Boeing books charges and warns on revenue and profit

    Aerospace group cites $2.8bn hit from last year’s strike, lay-offs and rising defence business costs

    Boeing workers wave picket signs as they strike
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Oren Cass
    Trump can bend Biden’s industrial policy to suit him

    America appears on the cusp of an era of large-scale domestic investment in areas from semiconductors to energy

    María Hergueta illustration of Trump and Biden standing on a seesaw balancing on a cog
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Will Washington need to step up to support Intel?

    Exit of CEO Pat Gelsinger maybe a sign of a shift in attitude by the company’s board to a huge strategic overhaul

    Pat Gelsinger
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in America
    Biden’s economic legacy tied to fate of his industrial policies

    Companies have committed nearly $400bn since he signed flagship legislation. But will it last?

    Joe Biden in a formal suit against a red and blue graphical background featuring $100 bills and a bar chart
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Markets InsightBrian Albrecht
    How Trump should impose tariffs

    Policymakers need to update their approach if they are determined to use trade measures to protect industry

    The United States Steel Corporation Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania, US
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Manufacturing fetishism is destined to fail

    It is so much easier to blame the disappearance of these US jobs on China than on domestic consumers and automation

    James Ferguson illustration of a farm, a factory and city office blocks right next to each other
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump tells trading partners they will lose jobs to the US

    Ex-president outlines protectionist industrial policy as economy moves to centre of White House race

    Donald Trump speaks to attendees during a campaign rally
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Trump flags made in China: how tariff-flouting campaign kit flooded the US

    US manufacturers say wrongly labelled online goods are eroding their election-year hopes

    Donald Trump supporters fly a flag at a rally for the former president in Las Vegas, Nevada, this month
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Intel’s long-shot turnaround hits a critical stage

    Chipmaker is trying to pull off one of the most complex revivals in tech history

    Intel chief Pat Gelsinger speaking in Taipei in June
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Boeing Company
    Boeing reaches tentative deal with union to avert damaging strike

    Industrial action by production workers would have piled new problems on struggling aerospace manufacturer

    In July, tens of thousands of District 751 union members rallied at a Seattle stadium for a strike authorisation vote
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    US manufacturing is not a recession red flag Premium content

    Plus: American housing supply will stay bad

    The New York skyline in front of a background of US dollar bills
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