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US manufacturing

  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
    The Bethlehem Project
    Pennsylvania’s chipmaking comeback left in limbo under Donald Trump

    High-tech chip manufacturing began in the Lehigh Valley but promised federal funds for its revival have not come through

    Five people in cleanroom suits and masks stand inside a semiconductor manufacturing facility, surrounded by equipment.
  • Friday, 27 March, 2026
    Global Economy
    Molecules are taking their revenge on services

    Capital-intensive industries matter in the age of the Halo trade

    Gillian Tett
    An illustration showing maps of China, South Korea, and Japan formed by smoke rising from factory chimneys against a red background
  • Thursday, 26 March, 2026
    US trade
    Apple to source US-made parts from Japan’s TDK under reshoring push

    Japanese supplier to produce advanced sensors for smartphone cameras

    Donald Trump shakes hands with Tim Cook in the Oval Office, standing in front of signs about Apple's American Manufacturing Program.
  • Saturday, 7 March, 2026
    US employment
    America rethinks how to train its workforce

    A ‘skills gap’ is not some blight on free enterprise that someone else will fix

    Oren Cass
    A graduate in robe and mortar board and a woman in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket stroll towards a blue horizon speckled with stars
  • Sunday, 26 October, 2025
    The CEO
    Interview. The ‘blue-collar CEO’ trying to fix Kodak

    Turnaround specialist Jim Continenza is focused on putting the brand back on the right path

    Jim Continenza, CEO of Kodak, poses in front of Kodak-themed wall displays at Kodak HQ.
  • Monday, 13 October, 2025
    Jefferies Group Inc
    Jefferies says First Brands losses can be absorbed

    Bank denies earning undisclosed fees on financing provided to auto parts supplier through ‘side letter’

    The Jefferies headquarters building at 520 Madison Avenue with two people walking towards the entrance.
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    Intel Corp
    Inside Intel’s big bet to save US chipmaking — and itself

    Claims of a breakthrough at the chips company’s new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers

    Cecil Manford in a cleanroom suit holds up a computer chip with one hand and gives a thumbs up at an Intel facility.
  • Tuesday, 7 October, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump’s tariffs won’t deliver many jobs

    Nostalgia is not a strategy: the past cannot return

    Martin Wolf
    Illustration of Donald Trump handing a very wonky bent spanner to a surprised looking factory worker in dungarees and a red Maga cap
  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump announces timber and furniture tariffs

    Latest levies to rise to as high as 50% for countries that do not strike trade deals with US

    A customer lifts a piece of lumber from a stack in the lumber section of a Home Depot store
  • Sunday, 14 September, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    US companies put brakes on hiring after Trump’s tariffs hit

    Industries most exposed to rising costs caused by trade wars launch wave of job cuts

    A Claas Axion 820 John Deere tractor drives between rows of wheat under a clear sky, viewed from low among the crops.
  • Sunday, 7 September, 2025
    US trade
    There’s an unexpected climate upside to Trump’s tariff regime

    Rerouting of supply chains can lead to significant reductions in emissions

    James Meadway
    Donald Trump holds a chart labeled "Reciprocal Tariffs" listing tariff rates for various countries during remarks at the White House.
  • Tuesday, 2 September, 2025
    Climate change
    JD Vance’s hometown falls foul of Trump’s clean energy cuts

    Ohio steel mill scrapped plans for a hydrogen-fuelled furnace because of White House’s assault on green incentives

    The steel mill and abandoned buildings in Middletown Ohio
  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump’s 100% tariff threat looms over chip sector despite relief for Apple

    US probe into semiconductor sector could leave a patchwork of agreements with individual companies and countries

  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
    FT Film
    Trump, tariffs and the battle for blue-collar America | FT Film

    From tariffs to talent and tech, the FT looks at the future of manufacturing in the US Rust Belt

  • Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
    FT Film35 min
    Trump, tariffs and the battle for blue-collar America | FT Film

    From tariffs to talent and tech, the FT looks at the future of manufacturing in its US heartland

    Trump's blue collar dream
  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    Apple Inc
    Explainer. What is Apple’s $600bn US investment pledge?

    Tech giant promised Donald Trump hundreds of billions of spending — but the real scale is difficult to measure

    Donald Trump and Tim Cook in the Oval Office on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump threatens 100% tariff on chips but with carve-out for Apple

    President says tech companies can avoid the levy by investing in US manufacturing

    An engraved plaque with the Apple logo sits in front of chief executive Tim Cook and President Donald Trump
  • Monday, 21 July, 2025
    Disrupters
    Tech shocks to industry have only just begun

    The disruption that is hitting the manufacturing sector could come for healthcare next

    Rana Foroohar
  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    US companies
    US trade representative pushes defence start-ups to fill manufacturing gap

    Silicon Valley players cheer Jamieson Greer as they hope to benefit from a boost to military spending

    Jamieson Greer
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    It’s always steel — tariffs provide Trump with a familiar trade weapon

    The industry has suffered from overproduction and protectionism for decades

    Alan Beattie
    An employee prepares to take a sample from the electric arc furnace at Liberty Steel’s Aldwarke mill in Rotherham
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Global Economy
    How to make a sovereign wealth fund work for American industry

    An asset-backed equipment finance programme would be just the boost US companies need

    Josh Zoffer
    TSMC Arizona fab
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Nippon Steel
    Nippon Steel lifts US Steel investment pledge to $11bn in push to secure deal

    Japanese suitor also promises to add thousands of jobs in bid to win over Trump

    A tugboat pushes a barge along a river near the US Steel Corp facility in Clairton. The industrial site emits smoke, and an American flag is displayed on a building.
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump’s tariffs will boomerang on US exporters

    A tax on imports is a tax on exports

    Martin Sandbu
    Premium content
    A worker operates a remote control to pour aluminiumluminum into a furnace at a plant in Goose Creek, South Carolina
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    US economy
    Tariffs hit home for small US businesses that rely on Chinese imports

    Growing worries that a trade war could suffocate a crucial driver of employment and economic growth

    Jacob Sendowski near his work space in Malibu, California
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Visual story
    Why Trump can’t build iPhones in the US

    The administration wants the iPhone to be manufactured in America. The components that power it show why that is highly impractical

    An exploded view of an iPhone 14 showing its internal components separated and laid out in 3D
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