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🇮🇳 INDIA
🔴 Trade War Opens Door for India

🔸 U.S. tariffs on China hit 145%, India's rate stays low at 27%.
🔸 Delhi eyes electronics, auto parts, textiles as strategic entry points.
🔸 Foxconn shifts iPhone output to India; $26B poured into local production.
🔸 But weak labor skills & reliance on China still a big hurdle.

#India#China#US
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CBC Kitchener-Waterloo

Honda considering moving some auto production out of Canada: Japanese report
A Japanese news outlet is reporting that Honda is considering moving some of its production out of Canada after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 25 per cent auto tariff last month, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the report is not accurate. 
#business #politics #trade #manufacturing #Canada #Ontario
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hon

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C. Lambeth

The #Republican #tariff insanity will fail. Not only will it drive up prices because AMERICANS pay the #TariffTax on everything they buy, but it will also fail to bring both #jobs and #manufacturing to the USA. New industrial parks take YEARS to build, especially considering new supply chains that they depend on, and no company is going to make that investment when #Trump is out in 4 years, the American economy tanks, and the next president will reverse it all.
#RepublicansAreTheProblem

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CBC Business

Honda considering moving some auto production out of Canada: Japanese report
A Japanese news outlet is reporting that Honda is considering moving some of its production out of Canada amid the ongoing tariff threats from U.S. President Donald Trump — though automotive experts in Ontario said early Tuesday this may be contingency pl...
#business #politics #trade #manufacturing #Canada #Ontario
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hon

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Honda considering moving some auto production out of Canada: Japanese report
A Japanese news outlet is reporting that Honda is considering moving some of its production out of Canada amid the ongoing tariff threats from U.S. President Donald Trump — though automotive experts in Ontario said early Tuesday this may be contingency pl...
#business #politics #trade #manufacturing #Canada #Ontario
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hon

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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻

Day 17 👷‍♂️ 👷‍♀️🧰 🛠️🪚🗜️ 🏭

“The free #TAFE policy – I am sorry, it’s just not working. I am trying to be polite. But the free TAFE #policy has cost this country $1.5bn.” — #SarahHenderson

Todays #LNP / #Liberal / #Coalition policy on #Education, #Business, #Manufacturing, #Housing and message to all those who are technically competent in building, fixing and … getting💩 done.

Also a reminder the Liberals, LNP and Nationals have no Policies.

#AusPol / #PeterDutton / #CandidateProblem <theguardian.com/australia-news>

the Guardian · Australia election 2025 live: PM says ‘we do not want Russian influence’ in region amid reports Moscow wants to base aircraft in IndonesiaFollow live
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

That's Late Stage Capitalism - China Style ->

"China still dominates shoe production, but its share of global exports has slipped by 10 percentage points over the past decade, with much of that going to rival hubs like Vietnam and Indonesia, according to the Yearbook.

Zhou’s plant now employs fewer than 20 workers. “The future is bleak and hopeless if we continue like this,” says Zhou from his showroom in a mostly empty wholesale market in a Guangzhou suburb focused on international trade. “It would be difficult to return to how it was before.”

Factories across China at the low-end of manufacturing are facing the same dilemma — either they invest in automation that shrinks the number of jobs, or they slowly wither away.

The result, in the view of researchers and economists, is a painful shift away from low-cost, labour-intensive production that could leave millions of older, lower skilled workers in the lurch.

Analysis of 12 labour-intensive manufacturing industries between 2011 and 2019 by academics at Changzhou University, Yancheng Teachers University and Henan University found that average employment shrank by roughly 14 per cent, or nearly 4mn roles, between 2011 and 2019. Roles in the textile industry shrank 40 per cent over the period.

An FT analysis of the same 12 sectors between 2019 and 2023 found a further decline of 3.4mn jobs."

ft.com/content/7640fe64-006a-4

#China#Manufacturing#ShoeProduction
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Jon PENNYCOOK

Steel as essential for defence: 'Britain’s steelworks are anyway not entirely self-sufficient. They rely on imports of coal and iron ore from countries like Australia, Brazil, South Africa and Sweden. Nor were they self-sufficient in times of war. In the period leading up to the second world war, Britain sourced large quantities of iron from Sweden to make weapons'

economist.com/britain/2025/04/

UK Parliament Recalled To Debate The Renationilsation Of British Steel
The Economist · Britain’s rushed, muddled intervention in the steel industryBy The Economist
#UK#steel#manufacturing
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ABC Feeds

SafeWork finds dozens of safety breaches at plant where silos collapsed
By Romy Gilbert

Workers at a plant where two silos collapsed last year are at risk of serious injury or death, according to dozens of improvement notices issued by the NSW safety regulator.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/man

ABC News · Manildra Group hit with dozens of safety breaches after silo collapseBy Romy Gilbert
#WorkplaceAccidentsandIncidents#OccupationalHealthandSafety#Work
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ABC Feeds

SafeWork finds dozens of safety breaches at plant where silos collapsed
By Romy Gilbert

Workers at a plant where two silos collapsed last year are at risk of serious injury or death, according to dozens of improvement notices issued by the NSW safety regulator.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/man

ABC News · Manildra Group hit with dozens of safety breaches after silo collapseBy Romy Gilbert
#WorkplaceAccidentsandIncidents#OccupationalHealthandSafety#Work
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