Manufacturing & Technology News articles from December 2003

Manufacturing & Technology News archives from December 2003

Top commerce official says leadership and vision do not exist in government.('It Is A Fact')
December 5, 2003... The U.S. Department of Commerce is in no position to become a champion of a national manufacturing strategy aimed at reviving U.S. industry, says the second most powerful person in the agency. The department does not have the resources or...

White house science council proposes initiative to retain U.S. semiconductor industry.
December 5, 2003... The White House Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is getting ready to recommend the creation of a new "Bell Labs" type of government/industry/university research center aimed at keeping the United States on the...

Strange bedfellows: Pennsylvania manufacturers and labor unions take collective aim at free trade.
December 5, 2003... Pennsylvania largest manufacturing trade association and the state's major labor unions have joined forces to create a new political action group aimed at a radical overhaul of U.S. trade policies. The Coalition for Trade Sanity, a joint...

A day in the life: U.S. trade analysts confront a Chinese crawfish producer.
December 5, 2003... It's not easy representing the United States in trade disputes with Chinese companies. Ask Scot Fullerton and Doug Campau, case analysts at the U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA) who were in China in August investigating dumping...

Budget cut for manufacturing extension program frays some raw nerves.
December 5, 2003... A serious crisis has erupted within the U.S. Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) national network of centers created to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers modernize their operations. In last-minute negotiations between House and...

Congress sets national priorities and NIST isn't one of them.
December 5, 2003... The U.S. Congress does not care much about government programs aimed at improving the U.S technological industrial infrastructure. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is one of the only federal agencies whose budget will decline...

An unlikely group of protesters pickets Wal-Mart; Grass Roots Mfg. groups to coalesce around trade.
December 5, 2003... The manufacturing activist group MADinUSA is taking to the streets. The national grass roots organization sent demonstrators to picket in front of Wal-Mart stores in Southington, Conn., and El Paso, Texas, on Friday. Nov. 28, the busiest...

Federal government creates new trade advisory system.
December 5, 2003... The Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative are restructuring the trade advisory committees that provide input into trade agreements. The current committee structure is 20 years old and has been criticized by the...

AIA President Douglass says 'buy American' has no support.
December 5, 2003... After a December 1 press conference in Washington assessing the one-year impact of the Commissiom on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry, Manufacturing & Technology News Editor Richard McCormack and other reporters in attendance asked...

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