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THE LATEST NEWS: Articles in the June 16, 2009
Issue Of Manufacturing & Technology News

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• Chinese Tire Producers Hire Top Former U.S. Government Trade Officials In '421' Dumping Case

• 90,000 Small Manufacturing Companies Are At Risk Of Failure

• Market For Residential Wind Turbines Grows At A Robust Clip

• Babcock & Wilcox Introduces Modular Nuclear Reactor

• U.S. Machine Tool Industry Reaches A Nadir; Monthly Sales Dip To Lowest Level Ever

• The New Ambassador To China Has A Family Business With Factories And Joint Ventures Located There, By William Hawkins

• Catalysts Are A Trillion-Dollar U.S. Industry, But The Country Doesn't Seem To Care

• GAO Goes Undercover To Expose American Manufacturers Of High-Tech Military Equipment

• The Failure Of U.S. Manned Space Flight

• Manufacturers Of Electrical And Electronic Products Must Prepare For New Environmental Regulations

• Sens. Schumer And Graham Rediscover China Currency Issue

• When Asked, Only 17 Percent Of All Americans Have Ever Heard Of NAM

• Obama's Economic Fix Is Putting The U.S. In A Fix, By Paul Craig Roberts

• Foreign Investment In The U.S. Is Not For New Jobs Or Factories

• Americans Say The U.S. Should Not Favor Manufacturing

• Another Critique Of The U.S. Export Control System

Quote of Note

Among those who are working on the Chinese industry's behalf on the Section 421 case are James Jochum, the most recent Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration and former Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
-- Congressional request for a GAO inquiry into former Bush administration trade officials now representing Chinese interests before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Web Site Of The Week

"Next Generation Manufacturing National Survey 2009" of small manufacturers says they need to get on the ball or they will go out of business:
http://www.smallmanufacturers.org/picts/NGM-Overview-and-Findings.pdf.

Free Stories from Recent Back Issues

China's Manufacturing Jobs Surged As American Jobs Disappeared
(May 31, 2009)

Multi-Millionaires Populate Obama's Economic Team; None Need Worry About Losing Their Job
(May 19, 2009)

Government Stimulus Masks Long-Term Economic Decline And Leads To Loss Of U.S. Sovereignty
(April 30, 2009)

Defense Department To The U.S. Specialty Metals Industry: We Don’t Need You
(April 15, 2009)

U.S. Machine Tool Industry Is On The Brink: How Does An Industry Survive Without Any Orders?
(March 30, 2009)

Obama’s Top Economic Aide Sings The Praises
Of The ‘Wal-Mart Economy’
(March 9, 2009)

Fair Trade Community Celebrates Rare Victory
(February 19, 2009)

'Buy American' Issue Raises Its Thorny Head
(February 3, 2009)

'Let's Wish Ourselves The Best Of Luck'
Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Says Bottom Just Fell Out Of The U.S. Economy
(January 16, 2009)

'Fair' Traders Are Perplexed By Obama's Pick For USTR
(December 26, 2008)

Research And Development Will Not Be Included In President-Elect Obama's Massive Economic Stimulus Package
(December 3, 2008)