INVENTING THE FUTURE... BUILDING A STRONGER AMERICA... (SM)
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The U.S. Domestic Manufacturing Association works to maintain and build up the domestic manufacturing sector in the United States. The domestic manufacturing sector has lost 4,000,000 jobs since 2000*. Most of these jobs have been lost to offshore outsourcing but there are other causes as well. Currency manipulation, group-think, short-term thinking, and poorly negotiated trade policies are among the other reasons for the lost jobs and lost diversity of our economy.
The U.S.D.M.A. is the only major manufacturing group run by manufacturing professionals for the interest of domestic manufacturing. While we encourage manufacturing executives to join our group, we do not focus on them to the exclusion of others. Manufacturing professionals are: Industrial Designers, Product Design Engineers, Marketers, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineers, Continuous improvement experts, Production Planning and Supply Chain Professionals, Quality Improvement Professionals, Distribution Network Engineers, CRM - Customer Relationship Managers, Mgmt Accounting and Financial Managers and many others. We also strongly support the best factory production workers in the world: U.S. workers. And we do not exclude anyone who shares a love of manufacturing, innovation, and production - our Builder/Heros.
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* Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and Congressional Budget Office. Many of the problems in U.S. domestic manufacturing occur because of the poor trade agreements we negotiated with the Chinese government. In addition to allowing China to pump hundreds of tons of pollutants into the air while making our products (and doing so with labor methods that were outlawed in America years ago), China also trades their country's currency in such a way that gives them an additional 40% cost advantage over the U.S. Monitor the currency converter below to understand why America is no longer the manufacturing superpower it was only a couple of decades ago. |