By Jamie Colby
Oct. 14: Employees of Mountain and Sackett, a tie manufacturer with a plant in Long Island City, N.Y., make neckties by hand.
QUEENS, N.Y. — In just a month since its official launch, a new Web site MadeInUSA has signed up more than 350,000 U.S.-based companies looking to encourage consumers to “be American and [...]
By M.P. MCQUEEN
At least two home insurers in Florida have begun dropping policyholders who filed claims for property damage linked to drywall imported from China.
Disputes with insurance companies are increasing as a growing number of homeowners file claims for property damage they say is caused by defective Chinese drywall. Insurers are fighting the claims [...]
By PUI-WING TAM
DALLAS — The 16th floor at Two Galleria Tower and similar outposts once were touted as the new Silicon Valleys, where clusters of venture-capital firms sprouted to fund the latest technology start-ups.
Now, amid a tough fund-raising climate and poor venture returns, the 16th floor and others like it across the nation have [...]
By: Louis Uchitelle
The New York Times
The dark blue captain’s hat, with its golden oak-leaf clusters, sits atop a bookcase in Bryan Lawlor’s home, out of reach of the children. The uniform their father wears still displays the four stripes of a commercial airline captain, but the hat stays home. The rules forbid that [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture begins enforcing the final rule on country-of-origin labeling (COOL) . Under the new rule, grocery stores will have to identify the country of origin for muscle cuts and ground beef (including veal), pork, lamb, goat and chicken; wild and farm-raised fish and shellfish; fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables; [...]
By Tim Collie
Adam Reiser has been a fan of American manufacturing since he first tried to park a Honda in a friend’s driveway as a high school student during the 1970s.
The friend’s mother told him to keep the Japanese-made auto out of her yard – a local Ford plant had just shut down, laying [...]
By TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer
DETROIT – Hummer, the off-road vehicle that once epitomized America’s love for hulking trucks, is now in the hands of a Chinese heavy equipment maker.
General Motors Co. and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. finally signed the much-anticipated deal to sell the brand on Friday.
Tengzhong will get an 80 [...]
In 2006 alone, nearly seven million sheets of drywall were imported from China. The federal court in the Eastern District of Louisiana has identified 26 brands of drywall, but 11 others had no markings other than variations of “Made in China.”
By JOE McDONALD, AP Business Writer
BEIJING – The auto-parts maker Delphi Corp. is headquartered in Troy, Mich., in the heart of the region that made the United States the car capital of the world. It’s a place where the phrase “buy American” is right at home.
Now the 3,000 employees of Delphi’s brake and suspension [...]
Smart-grid technology will bring huge savings to companies as varied as Cisco, PG&E, and Cargill, and to consumers, too. But who will foot the bill?
By Rachael King
Food producer Cargill is taking a carving knife to its electricity bills. At a plant in Springdale, Ark., where the company handles about 50,000 turkeys a day, electricity [...]