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title: "Waiting for Onshoring"
summary: |-
  Let’s stop talking about reshoring and focus on what needs to be done to truly revive U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.
date: "2013-07-17"
issues: ["Manufacturing"]
authors: ["Robert D. Atkinson"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2013/07/17/waiting-onshoring/"
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# Waiting for Onshoring

To listen to most discussions of U.S. manufacturing these days one would not be faulted for believing that we have turned the ship of decline around, that production jobs are coming back and that the on-shoring good times are finally here. Unfortunately this storyline does not hold up to critical analysis.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2013/07/17/waiting-onshoring/*