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Podcast Ep. 6: How One of the Largest U.S. Truck Manufacturers Mitigates Tariff Risk — and Plans for 2020

Podcast Ep. 6: How One of the Largest U.S. Truck Manufacturers Mitigates Tariff Risk — and Plans for 2020

In the aftermath of the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum going into effect in March 2018, we heard and read a lot about some of the largest American OEMs and their business challenges. For example, Ford Motor Company’s claim that the tariffs cost the automaker $1 billion in profits last year. But what’s […]

Podcast Ep. 5: Reshoring Brought Record Number of Jobs Back to U.S. in 2017 — What Now?

Podcast Ep. 5: Reshoring Brought Record Number of Jobs Back to U.S. in 2017 — What Now?

Late last week, a CMO of a B2B mobile technology company published a lightly scathing take on the mainstream media’s characterization of the current “trade war” (a “farce,” according to the headline), by making the case for, among other things, reshoring. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial of MetalMiner’s Outlook Ostensibly […]

Podcast Ep. 4: What the USS Gabrielle Giffords Means to the Aluminum Industry

Podcast Ep. 4: What the USS Gabrielle Giffords Means to the Aluminum Industry

Now that the New Year has begun, we’re getting ever closer (hopefully) to the Commerce Department’s final recommendations on the Section 232 investigation. Today we continue our podcast series that we’re calling “Manufacturing Trade Policy Confidential,” in which we turn our focus to the aluminum industry. Our guest is Heidi Brock, the president and CEO […]

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