Manufacturing

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Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Trump's Proposed Auto Tariffs Would Throw US Automakers and Workers Under the Bus

Sherman Robinson (PIIE), Karen Thierfelder (US Naval Academy*), Jeffrey J. Schott (PIIE), Euijin Jung (PIIE) and Zhiyao (Lucy) Lu (PIIE)
May 31, 2018
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

A US Content Requirement in NAFTA Could Hurt Manufacturing

Caroline Freund (PIIE)
September 14, 2017
Working Paper

Manufacturing and the 2016 Election

Caroline Freund (PIIE) and Dario Sidhu (PIIE)
May 2017
RealTime Economic Issues Watch

Does Manufacturing Have the Largest Employment "Multiplier" for the Domestic Economy?

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)
March 22, 2017

Recent Content

Policy Brief

Will industrial and agricultural subsidies ever be reformed?

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE)

March 2021
PIIE Chart

China is deindustrializing but has a way to go to match other upper-middle-income economies

Mary E. Lovely (PIIE)
February 26, 2021
China Economic Watch

China goes from strength to strength in global trade

Tianlei Huang (PIIE) and Nicholas R. Lardy (PIIE)

November 16, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Memo to the Biden administration on how to rethink industrial policy

Douglas A. Irwin (PIIE)

October 20, 2020
PIIE Chart

Manufacturing employment declined more in countries with large trade surpluses than deficits

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)
October 7, 2020
PIIE Chart

Manufacturing trade surpluses may not prevent declining manufacturing employment

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

September 24, 2020
Trade and Investment Policy Watch

Will smaller trade deficits bring back manufacturing jobs?

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

September 17, 2020
Working Paper

Trade surplus or deficit? Neither matters for changes in manufacturing employment shares

Robert Z. Lawrence (PIIE)

September 2020
Op-Eds

Bring back manufacturing? Then invest in America

Mary E. Lovely (PIIE)

September 13, 2020
via San Antonio Express-News
Op-Eds

Industrial policy makes a comeback

Gary Clyde Hufbauer (PIIE) and Euijin Jung (PIIE)
August 16, 2020
via East Asia Forum