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"Specifically, 33.6% of respondents stated that they are "considering" bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. while only 15.3% of U.S. companies stated that they are "definitively" planning to re-shore activities to the U.S.
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To understand the reasons for the change in manufacturing footprint, we asked companies to identify the drivers of this decision. As you can see in the list below, the top reason to move manufacturing back to the U.S. is to cut Time-to-Market. Cost Reduction and Product Quality are not far below.
The top six decision drivers for companies to re-shore are:
1. Time-to-Market (73.7%)
2. Cost Reductions (63.9%)
3. Product Quality (62.2%)
4. More Control (56.8%)
5. Hidden Supply Chain Management Costs (51.4%)
6. Protect IP (48.5%)"

Trecho retirado de "U.S. Re-Shoring: A Turning Point"

BTW,

"we are in the middle of a transformation from a global manufacturing strategy, where the focus is on low cost countries, to a more regional strategy, where China is for China, U.S. (or Mexico and Latin America) is for the Americas and Eastern Europe is for European markets.
This trend has picked up pace in the last few years not only because of job losses in the U.S., but also because the economics that made off-shoring attractive in the first place have changed for the following reasons:

• oil price;

• labor costs;

• automation;

• risk"