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How Does Mexico Compare To China As A Manufacturing Base? [Podcast]

August 13, 2021 by Adrian Leighton

How Does Mexico Compare To China As A Manufacturing Base? [Podcast]

In this episode… Dan Harris from China Law Blog recently wrote: "Mexico is the New China" and Manufacturers are Moving There. Renaud Anjoran and Adrian from the team explore the topic of nearshoring to locations like Mexico, why it may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supply Chain, Supply Chain Risk Management Series Tagged With: assessing your supply chain, china alternatives, mexico, nearshoring, offshoring, supply chain risk analysis, tariffs, US-China trade war

China Still Best For New & Complex Manufacturing Projects

September 25, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

China Still Best for New and Complex Manufacturing Projects

Steve Dickinson wrote an article (Moving Manufacturing from China: Where you Gonna Run?) that got me thinking about complex manufacturing projects and China. He outlines the main reasons why China became "the factory of the world" so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sourcing New Suppliers Tagged With: America VS China, China, China manufacturing, complex manufacturing, moving production from China, sourcing suppliers, tariffs, US-China trade war

Effects Of The US-China Trade War On Manufacturing Relocations

June 25, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

Effects of the US-China Trade War on Manufacturing Relocations

A few days ago, I shared an article entitled Are Manufacturers Really Leaving China? The China Perspective  on Linkedin. David Collins, the author, wrote: Right now, a full-scale exodus is more talk than anything else; it is too early to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sourcing New Suppliers Tagged With: China, manufacturing relocation, tariffs, Thailand, US importers, US-China trade war, vietnam

Will US Tariffs Drive Manufacturing From China To Vietnam?

May 20, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

Will US Tariffs Drive Manufacturing From China To Vietnam?

A few days ago, Trump claimed that many tariffed companies would leave China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia in this  series of tweets (read from bottom to top): In parallel, I see an Asia Briefing article entitled Why … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supply Chain Tagged With: tariffs, Trade war, trump, vietnam

9 Consequences of the Upcoming US-China Trade War

May 9, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

9 Consequences of the Upcoming US-China Trade War

Based on all the articles I have read about the current geopolitical situation, I am not optimistic about the affect of the US-China trade war on American importers. Dan Harris, who wrote "the US-China Cold War start now," announced that a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: China Insights Tagged With: China, cost of import, factory consolidation, import cost, labor cost, low cost asia, mexico, negotiation, supply chain management, tariffs, tariffs imported products China, Trade war, usa, vietnam

What If Your Chinese Supplier Offers To Make Your Product in Vietnam?

February 18, 2019 by Renaud Anjoran

What If Your Chinese Supplier Offers To Make Your Product in Vietnam?

We heard of several Chinese manufacturers that are opening a Vietnam factory, in order to serve their American customers better by avoiding Trump's tariffs. Sometimes that makes sense, and sometimes it doesn't... If one of your suppliers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legal System Tagged With: China, tariffs, vietnam


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