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Rethinking Your Supply Chain in an Era of Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

and European companies have spent the past 20 years concentrating more and more of their manufacturing in East Asia to reduce costs by exploiting labor-arbitrage opportunities and address the promise of that rapidly growing market. Its medium-term goal — if its first U.S. In 2016, that gap was down to about 1 percentage point.