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Well … I doubt this is a new ideological haven for the Dems as Trump has made it very clear for a long time that recovering our North American manufacturing base is one of his prime goals.

It was actually Clinton that screwed up the US industries the most, and its clear that Trump is the only western leader since to shape up to reverse this. Biden just kept the same tariffs in place that Trump had already installed, but adopted a useless and wasteful strategy involving green energy that will do nothing for our core industries, and unless changed by Trump will do far more damage than good..

The good news is that Trump is back, and will get on with what he started, and Canada and Mexico will have to buckle up and join him on the ride to a North American trade bloc.

More about this in my new book Take Back Manufacturing at …

https://nigelsouthway.substack.com/p/take-back-manufacturing-298

And at

https://nigelsouthway.substack.com/

www.nigelsouthwayauthor.com

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Well, Nigel I wish you good luck . I suppose when already stagnant wages never recovered from offshoring, reach lows below that of Chinese laborers then the jobs will return.

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Well…. the good news is that we are already at the landed cost tipping point between the US and China on quite a few commodities ……. even without tariffs.

Labor is only a small delta cost compared to shipping, inventory and other hidden costs in long supply chains.. then if we add the latest automation this further reduces any advantage of low cost labor.. Plus the offshore labor is also escalating to further close the gap

And this is why 85% of corporation are reshoring with a 55% increase in reshoring levels year over year..

We have challenges…… but its happening and well worth the effort.

More at .. www.nigelsouthwayauthor.com

and a video at TBM and Industry 4 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5f1VB7s3FQ&t=884s

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