domestic manufacturing

Local factory output

Domestic manufacturing is the production of goods within a country's own borders, as opposed to importing them or outsourcing production abroad.

The term often carries political and economic weight in debates about jobs, trade policy, and national self-sufficiency: The candidate promised to bring domestic manufacturing back to the heartland.

Domestic manufacturing of semiconductors has become a national security priority.

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jobs · workers · steel · automation · supply chain · reshoring · blue collar · hard hat · skilled trades · union · production · industry · machinery · trade · exports · textiles · warehouses · labor

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geographic location of production

domestic manufacturingoffshoring

Moving work overseas

outsourcing · imports · deindustrialization

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domestic, domestically, domesticate, domesticated, domestication, domesticity, domicile, manufacturing, manufacture

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