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Zoe Anderson
Trade and Manufacturing — What's the Point of Making T-Shirts in America?
Making more things in America has been one of several justifications for the Trump administration’s tariffs. But the view that manufacturing is a valuable economic activity and that the United States needs to reinvigorate its manufacturing base has had support across the political divide, including from the Biden administration.
What is special about manufacturing and manufacturing jobs? What are the benefits of making more things in America and what have been the costs of offshoring and the diminution of manufacturing in the United States? Is it enough to rally around industrial strategies for “critical” sectors? Who gets to define what is critical? And why do so many people think T-shirts and underwear are unimportant when just about everyone wears a T-shirt and underwear (hopefully) every single day?!
IN-PERSON GUEST: Bayard Winthrop, CEO, American Giant
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