{"id":338,"date":"2011-05-12T18:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-05-12T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T10:58:56","slug":"manufacturing-in-usa-almost-on-par-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing in USA almost on par with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Consulting Group today had a press release which is a not-so-weak indicator of the changing geopolitical status of China and the USA.\u00a0 The most interesting paragraph was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Indeed, a number of companies, especially U.S.-based ones, are already rethinking their production locations and supply chains for goods destined to be sold in the U.S. For some, the economics have already reached a tipping point.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the release talks about manufacturing moving from China back to the USA, where labour costs can be cheaper and quality is higher.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a changing world when it&#8217;s economically advantageous for organisations to manufacture in the US rather than China.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcg.com\/media\/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-75973\">BCG &#8211; Press Release &#8211; Made in the USA, Again: Manufacturing Is Expected to Return to America as China\u2019s Rising Labor Costs Erase Most Savings from Offshoring<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Consulting Group today had a press release which is a not-so-weak indicator of the changing geopolitical status of China and the USA.\u00a0 The most interesting paragraph was this: Indeed, a number of companies, especially U.S.-based ones, are already rethinking their production locations and supply chains for goods destined to be sold in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}