The Cost of Offshoring for US Manufacturing

16/01/2025 10 min
The Cost of Offshoring for US Manufacturing

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Episode Synopsis

When you think about offshoring, restoring, or nearshoring, you're probably thinking about cost. Certainly, the cost of labor and energy is a primary deciding factor when it comes to offshoring, restoring, or neashoring decisions. But what about the hidden costs of offshoring? This is a subject our guest knows a lot about. John Gardner writes about the hidden costs of offshoring and the increasingly apparent benefits of nearshoring. He is the author of Manufacture Local: How to Make America the Manufacturing Superpower of the World.