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              US manufacturing

              • 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
              • Friday, 23 August, 2024
                Soumaya Keynes
                Are US manufacturing jobs worth fighting for?

                Historically, such work was seen as a ticket into the middle class — but data on their pay premium is mixed

                Ann Kiernan illustration of a factory worker operating mechanical arms, graph.
              • Friday, 16 August, 2024
                The Big Read
                Has Joe Biden spurred an American manufacturing renaissance?

                The IRA and Chips Act, the president’s signature laws, aim to boost investment. But delays to projects are raising questions over their legacy

                An illustration of US President Joe Biden with Capitol Hill in the background
              • Monday, 12 August, 2024
                News in-depthUS Inflation Reduction Act
                Delays hit 40% of Biden’s major IRA manufacturing projects

                FT research shows that $84bn of initiatives announced in first year of the IRA and Chips Act have experienced slowdowns

                A composite image of Joe Biden and an American flah
              • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
                Alan Beattie
                How Bidenomics will survive Biden’s departure

                Kamala Harris won’t have much room to shift from industrial intervention and import tariffs

                US vice-president Kamala Harris stands in front of several American flags
              • Monday, 22 July, 2024
                Batteries
                Trump risk will drive Asia’s battery makers Premium content

                Sector’s US strategy under threat from ex-president’s pledge to roll back Biden’s clean energy policies if he wins election

                A visitor walks past a booth of LG Energy Solution during an exhibition in Seoul, South Korea
              • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
                White House Watch
                Why electric vehicles matter in the White House race

                Also in today’s newsletter, how Joe Biden is preparing for next week’s presidential debate

                An employee works on a Rivian R1S electric vehicle on the company’s pilot production line in Irvine, California
              • Friday, 7 June, 2024
                FT MagazineTim Harford
                What zebras can teach us about international trade

                US tariffs on Chinese goods are the result of a highly complex ecosystem

              • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
                Rana Foroohar
                The great American transport crisis tells us something

                From the Baltimore bridge collapse to chaos at Boeing, what look like discrete problems are in fact part of a wider dysfunction

              • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
                Business InsightRichard Waters
                Intel’s turnaround looks set to be a long haul for investors

                Attempt to claw back a lead in global chip manufacturing was never going to be easy

                Intel signage
              • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
                Intel Corp
                Intel to receive $8.5bn in US funding for high-end chip manufacturing

                Preliminary agreement includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states

                Intel’s Fab 42 microprocessor manufacturing site in Chandler, Arizona
              • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
                Chinese-backed solar factory stirs suspicions in rural Ohio

                Local opponents raise fears over Beijing’s influence as US aims to reshore supply chain

                Illuminate USA’s 1mn sq ft solar panel factory in Pataskala, Ohio
              • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
                Automobiles
                Emboldened US union launches membership drive across 13 carmakers

                Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen among companies targeted after UAW wins concessions at Detroit’s Big Three

                United Auto Workers on a picket line in Detroit in September
              • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
                Joe Biden
                Biden courts union votes in trip to Midwest car plant

                US president hails ‘game-changer’ deals struck by workers and backs unionisation at Tesla and Toyota

                Joe Biden
              • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
                Investing in America 2023
                Ohio’s rustbelt turns into a magnet for chip fabs

                Tech investors say ‘Hi, not Goodbye, Columbus’ as projects worth tens of billions crowd in

                Aerial view of the Intel chip manufacturing site in Licking County
              • Monday, 30 October, 2023
                Willy Shih
                What the ubiquitous syringe tells us about US supply chains

                Domestically made products like syringes currently cost more than those produced in China

                A BD needle ready for use
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