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expects that this year there could be about a 20% year-on-year increase in the amount of manufacturing that will be reshored into the US from what occurred in 2025, which he says was already a strong year. “And the rate of increase should continue to improve going forward,” he says, which is also expected to have a positive impact upon the availability of US manufacturing jobs. Moser points to a recent survey in which US
steelmakers indicated that they would reshore about 30% of what they currently import if they could find enough skilled workers to work in those facilities, which is not that easy to do. He says that there are certain other considerations as well including confidence that recently imposed tariffs will be permanent – or at least long term – and what their impact will be. Coates, however, points out that there have been some questions about some of the tariffs and whether, as was initially believed, they would indeed bring more manufacturing back into the US. She noted that while the Section 232 tariffs
upon steel and aluminium, which were increased to 50% with far fewer exemptions, are still out there, there has been some jockeying when it comes to certain other tariffs. For example, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs announced on Liberation Day in April were declared illegal by the US Supreme
Court but are in the process of being replaced by a combination of Section 122 and Section 301 tariffs, which Coates says are likely to stick. Also, given some recent tax incentives, including those in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Mazzella’s Gaydos says that a number of manufacturers believe that they can save money by building new facilities in the US. Gorbel’s Duhamel observed that there has been a significant amount of increases in investments being announced by manufacturers across many different sectors with some of the biggest being the manufacture of semiconductors, battery production, aerospace, pharmaceuticals and some other advanced manufacturing sectors. And when it comes to reshoring of manufacturing, Moser says that perhaps the hottest sector is the production of semiconductor chips with many huge factories being built to both produce those chips, the chemicals and other raw materials needed to do so.
Duhamel says that has been helped by the funding from the CHIPS & Science Act, as well as certain concerns about what China’s plans are for Taiwan, where the majority of semiconductor chips are currently produced. That is also related to another very strong
market. Data centre construction, which, Moser points out, requires various kinds of infrastructure and buildings, transformers, power production, racking and cooling equipment, and, therefore,
has been accounting for a significant amount of US manufacturing growth. But at the same time, there has recently been
some resistance to having certain new data centre projects be added to the construction pipeline. Mazzella’s Gaydos notes that given the push for artificial intelligence and some other technological advances there is clearly a need for these massive data centres to be built, “But it is the same old adage – that while people want the data centres to be built, they don’t want them to be built in their backyard.” On the other hand, he observes that building data centres is positive to bolstering demand and the manufacturing capacity in a number of other industries – not only semiconductor chip production, but also producers of steel, concrete, cooling towers and HVAC systems. Gaydos also notes that given that data centres consume a lot of power, they are supportive of the energy and energy infrastructure sectors. Coates says that the pharmaceutical industry, and reshoring of the production of pharmaceuticals, are also booming, especially with hopes that companies could get some relief from the import tariffs, therefore, US drug prices, by building US production facilities.
From ship to shore A lot of shipbuilders have been also reshoring their manufacturing. Philip Bell, president of the Steel Manufacturers Association, says that has
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