Tag: Manufacturing

Six in 10 people say the economy has improved under President Trump, and 38 percent give him some credit for it. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Automakers: Currency not issue in NAFTA, but put it in anyway

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 8:53 pm

Proponents of the system, including most U.S. big business groups, argue the system is necessary to ensure neutrality. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

US automakers break with business on key NAFTA issue

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 8:20 pm

Rosa Labonte works on a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica on the assembly line at the Windsor Assembly Plant, Friday, May 6, 2016 in Windsor. NAFTA's rules of origin are particularly important to automakers, who use supply chains spread across all three member countries. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Canada companies push to maintain NAFTA’s ‘made in America’ definition

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2017 8:20 pm

With a draft executive order in hand and a finger on the kill switch, President Trump was talked out of pulling out of NAFTA at the eleventh hour when Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the White House to get him to stop, saying America's sudden exit would be too much of an economic "shock to the system." (AP photos)

Can Trump reshape NAFTA?

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2017 4:01 am

When factories roll up and move out of town the impact isn't just the jobs that are lost in the plant. (Wikipedia Commons)

Promised land lost

Salena Zito · May 28, 2017 4:05 am

A combination of a lower rate for repatriated earnings abroad with immediate expensing of business investment in equipment and operations, and with lower overall rates for businesses large and small, would send a powerful and encouraging message to multinationals and to the small and medium-sized American businesses that are part of their supply chains. (iStock by Getty Images)

How tax reform can bring back US manufacturing jobs

David Melcher · May 23, 2017 4:01 am

Ethane demand globally is currently soaring, with traditional producers in the Gulf states struggling to keep up with demand. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Energy and Environment

Coal state lawmakers look to new sources of jobs in infrastructure bill

John Siciliano · May 18, 2017 4:01 am

The project is in line with President Trump's goal to bring jobs back from overseas. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Apple to dump $1B into creating advanced US manufacturing jobs

Anna Giaritelli · May 4, 2017 12:10 am

Group says staying in the agreement would harm Trump's economic goals of spurring manufacturing and jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Manufacturers prod White House to leave Paris climate deal

John Siciliano · April 25, 2017 6:52 pm

A lot of U.S. manufacturers, big and small, use steel as an input in their manufacturing process. And these manufacturers employ many people in just the sort of production jobs with good wages that Trump has promised to save or restore. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Steel protectionism would harm the working man

Washington Examiner · April 24, 2017 1:14 am

The incident took place at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, outside Kansas City. (Screengrab/Twitter)

National Security

One dead after explosion at Army ammunition factory in Kansas City

Anna Giaritelli · April 11, 2017 8:31 pm

Sorry to Disappoint You, Mr. President

Richard Burr · April 7, 2017 6:00 am