As global supply chains continue to face challenges in 2024, a potential paradigm shift in U.S. trade policy looms on the horizon. The prospect of dramatically increased tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese imports and 10%-to-20% across all other trading partners, including...
Demand planning is a critical and dynamic aspect of any business, especially in the uniform, image apparel, and workwear sectors. Having spent part of my career in demand planning, I’ve come to appreciate the unique blend of skills and knowledge required for this...
The United States has barred imports from 26 Chinese cotton traders or warehouse facilities on Thursday as part of its effort to eliminate goods made with the forced labor of Uyghur minorities from the US supply chain. The companies are the latest additions to the...
U.S. customs enforcement is kicking up a notch. The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it's rolling out an "enhanced strategy" to counter illegal trade and "level the playing field" for the American textile industry, whose 500,000 jobs it says are...
Sourcing for the global apparel and footwear market has become ever more challenging over the past several years. Now, brands are navigating two additional complicating factors. First, the value chain faces increased pressure from demand fluctuations that have pushed...
Global manufacturers are increasingly turning to regionalization to boost supply chain and manufacturing resiliency, speed time-to-market and reap other business and environmental benefits from reshoring part of their operations to be closer to the markets they...
NAUMD has joined The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) and 128 additional organizations to deliver a letter to supranational, national, and local authorities around the world to modernize domestic textile, garment, footwear, and related accessories...
Three years ago, the way supply chains operated around the globe changed dramatically as the Covid-19 pandemic shut down factories, halted production and created shipping and logistical logjams that would persist for nearly two years. In the time since, many of those...
Source and collaborate at ITMA 2023, the event where global industry leaders showcase their latest textile manufacturing innovations. As the industry reimagines smart manufacturing and the demand for sustainable production intensifies, businesses need to explore...
Reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) job announcements for 2022 reached a new record of 364,000, a 53% increase from the previous year, according to the Reshoring Initiative’s 2022 Data Report. The report credits the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips and...
China's rise as the world's factory spanned four decades and ushered in an era of globalization and integrated supply chains. That facade started to crumble around 2018 after President Donald Trump launched a trade war against the East Asian giant. This, in turn, has...
A new Chief Executive / IEDC survey of CEOs dives deep into one of the hottest trends in business—the race to bring production back to the United States from China. U.S. manufacturers are now seeing this phenomenon through enough of a common lens that “they are...
