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What Is Made In The Us Essay

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Made in the USA

By Amanda Dale
March 20, 2016

I understand that the US is not a country that focuses highly on manufacturing. We are a country that focuses on innovation. There are still many things that are made in the US but they are usually items that are bigger or more expensive items. A lot of the items that are imported from other countries are small, or pieces of a bigger product. There may be pieces that come from four different countries that go into one product.

The manufacturing industry in the US now is also different from the industry in the past. Typically the factories that manufactured goods in the US were filled with hard working Americans that worked in these factories for their whole lives. There families probably working …show more content…

Many of these jobs will be highly specialized and will not require many employees. Products made in the US have a reputation for being of a higher quality and that would most likely not change if more manufacturing were added to our country. As a country that is well equipped with advanced technologies our products can be monitored, improved, and distributed efficiently.

With the innovative minds of those Americans who would be responsible for creating and maintaining the facilities we will undoubtedly design new products or tools. This will in turn rejuvenate our economy and reaffirm our place in the global economy. Also adding manufacturing in the US will cause other countries to use our facilities to fulfill their manufacturing needs. We will save due to our own goods being produced in our country but also will benefit from other countries needs as well.

Again in the past the individuals who worked at the manufacturing facilities were mostly uneducated, simply skilled individuals. Now these individuals would be highly skilled and would be responsible for much more in the company. They would most likely have many different skills that previously might have been the jobs of several different employees. These new highly skilled individuals are much more productive and are able to meet the needs of the company more …show more content…

“We reached the point where we could offset a portion of those labor costs by saving on logistics,” Parker says.” (The Washington Post)

The financials are now so close for businesses it is starting to make more sense to manufacture here in the US. The cost for shipping items back and forth is expensive and often items can be lost or damaged in route.

“The boom in natural gas production in the U.S., largely driven by fracking and other new drilling techniques, has led to a 25% decrease in gas prices in the U.S., contrasted with a 138% increase in China, Boston Consulting found.” (Los Angeles Times)

One reason that things are less expensive currently in the US is because the costs of gas are much higher out of the country. Due to our new fracking techniques we are experiencing less expensive fuel costs. I do believe that manufacturing is returning to the US. I believe that we will be manufacturing more goods that we use and goods that we will

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