Reshoring Survey Reveals Priorities for Reindustrialization
June 6, 2025Comments
A new industry report reveals what government and manufacturers must do to further accelerate and benefit from reshoring. Major must-dos: improve skilled workforce; employ total cost of ownership; prepare for geopolitical risk. A collaboration between the Reshoring Initiative and Regions Recruiting, the survey, separating responses from original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers, attracted more than 500 respondents and offers insight into manufacturers’ perceptions of barriers to manufacturing reshoring.
In particular, the survey, conducted from February through April of 2025:
- Offers alternative paths to reindustrialization if President Trump’s tariffs are permanently blocked by the courts;
- Quantifies the impact each of President Trump’s reindustrialization policies would have on future reshoring—an available and skilled workforce ranks number one, beating tariffs, taxes, regulations and currency;
- Ranks the reasons why OEMs have reshored;
- Pinpoints factors that OEMs should prioritize more highly: geopolitical risk and use of total cost of ownership;
- Reportedly is the first to survey U.S. contract manufacturers, identifying opportunities for them to gain orders vs. imports by achieving faster delivery and providing stronger commercial and technical partnership with the OEMs.
See also: Reshoring Initiative
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