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Thank you, Paul S. Lavoie. I hope that other #advancedmanufacturing colleagues will remember that playing offense includes speaking up to influence policy decisions, and not just bracing for whatever may happen. The artcle recounts the chaos Paul experienced as CEO of Carey Manufacturing, and that we all confronted during the last experiment with #tariffs which didn’t just cause significant price increases but a massive drop in #productivity as we all scrambled to reassess our #supplychains, scramble our management teams to requote projects daily, and deploy #qualitymanagement auditors around the globe to ensure compliance with #Connecticut’s highest level #aerospace #AS9100 #medical #ISO13485 and #automotive #IATF16949 standards. Many thanks to Donald Allan Jr., CEO of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., who states it clearly; “Obviously, coming out of the gate, there would be price increases associated with tariffs that we put into the market,” and explains that manufacturing now done in China would be moved to other parts of Asia or Mexico - not the USA. I hope others will use their voices to dissuade the new administration from repeating misguided trade-war policies, and maintaining the proven #USmanufacturing #jobcreation policies. #BuildAmericaBuyAmerica #BABA #BuyAmerica #BAA Alliance Technologies #cleantech #medtech #hardtech Carbon Capture Machine (CCM) #BipartisanInfrastructureLaw #BIL #InflationReductionAct #IRA

Learn about crucial legislative developments impacting California's manufacturing sector in this month's Government Relations Update. ⚙️ California’s Senate and Assembly Houses Have a Huge Deadline Very Soon  ⚙️ Keep California’s Workforce Trained  ⚙️ California’s Manufacturers May Face an Impossible Task 📲 Read more about it using the link below: https://lnkd.in/gFctCq9t #MakingCA #LegislativeUpdate #California #Manufacturing

NEWS: European Commission Antitrust Probe Rocks Tyre Industry #EuropeNews #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanTyreLaws #EuropeanCommissionAntitrustProbe #TyreIndustry #TireIndustry #TyreNews #TireNews

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day operations of running a small- to medium-sized business. But just as manufacturers don’t simply “machine some parts,” we can’t afford to see political action as just noise from D.C. The truth is, every decision made in our nation's capital can have a profound impact on what we do and how we do it. In a political system in which every decision has unintended consequences, manufacturing professionals must stay informed. And during an election year, that responsibility becomes even more important. As you head to the polls next month, remember that NTMA is working with you and for you to ensure our political systems are working in our members’ best interests. While we’re active on Capitol Hill so our members don’t have to be, we suggest some best practices to make sure you’re staying up-to-date and making the most of your NTMA membership. Check them out on the blog: https://bit.ly/4dBx0Yd #manufacturingadvocacy #NTMA

In 2021, President Biden issued an executive order, which specifically encouraged agencies to mount their efforts in cracking down repair restraints. The order has accorded the right-to-repair movements with substantial legislative momentum—as of August 2023, at least 25 states are actively considering right-to-repair legislations. Corporations have also begun to announce their right-to-repair initiatives. Notably, Apple recently declared that it would honor California’s new repair provisions and would be making available all information and tools for consumers and repair shops to fix its products nationwide.   Happening concurrently with the executive, legislative, and business-initiated right-to-repair moves are the judicial ones. In “Opening the Door to Right-to Repair: Deere & Co. and Its Implications,” Kira (Yuxin) Liu (’25) parses the most recent right-to-repair opinion. Analyzing the court’s reasoning, this article argues that Deere & Co. demonstrates the judiciary’s cooperative role in pushing forward the right-to-repair movement, manifested in its willingness to get around two barriers faced by right-to-repair litigants: the standing barrier as posed by Illinois Brick and the substantive barrier as posed by the general jurisprudence of limiting aftermarket claims since Kodak. While some uncertainties of the reasonings are to be further spelled out by future opinions, Deere & Co is arguably a big win for right-to-repair litigants in making progress within the traditional antitrust framework. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gBqkjfdD

The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision has changed how courts review OSHA rules, allowing them to strike down regulations if they don’t match the law. My colleagues Pamela Linberg and Ashton Hoffman discuss the impacts the manufacturing industry will face as legal challenges to OSHA standards may increase and how manufacturers should get ready for potential changes in regulations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g-bJv_Hy

The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision has changed how courts review OSHA rules, allowing them to strike down regulations if they don’t match the law. My colleagues Pamela Linberg and Ashton Hoffman discuss the impacts the manufacturing industry will face as legal challenges to OSHA standards may increase and how manufacturers should get ready for potential changes in regulations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQnM8YGx

The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision has changed how courts review OSHA rules, allowing them to strike down regulations if they don’t match the law. My colleagues Pamela Linberg and Ashton Hoffman discuss the impacts the manufacturing industry will face as legal challenges to OSHA standards may increase and how manufacturers should get ready for potential changes in regulations. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ejggsFwU

#VerdictAlert #Jurimatic Insulation Supplier Wins $20M+ Antitrust Judgment Against Market Monopolist #AntitrustMonopolyLawsuit #JuryVerdict #TrebeldamagesAwarded A Colorado federal jury awarded Thermal Pipe Shields $6.8M in damages, trebled to over $20M by the court, in an antitrust lawsuit against Johns Manville Corporation. Thermal Pipe Shields, represented by Geoff Blue and team, proved Johns Manville monopolized the U.S. industrial insulation market valued at $45-50M annually. Evidence showed Johns Manville threatened distributors to cut off supplies if they bought from Thermal Pipe Shields, falsely disparaged their product quality, and tied sales to essential items. Despite meeting standards and being cheaper, Thermal Pipe Shields sold under $1M of its insulation TPSX-12™ due to Johns Manville's tactics hindering market entry.  The $20M+ judgment aims to compensate for lost sales and deter such anticompetitive conduct by the monopolist Johns Manville, upholding antitrust laws. #CompetitionRestored #MonopolisticConductPenalized #AntitrustEnforcement Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/dXdWvkpY Cc: Exlitem | Expert Witness Profiler [EWP] | Ashish Arun

📢 New Product Safety and Metrology Bill 📢 In the King’s Speech in UK Parliament last week, it was announced the Government will be introducing a new Product Safety and Metrology Bill. One of the intentions of this Bill is to allow for closer alignment between EU and UK Regulations on product safety, weights and measures following Brexit. Most of the product safety framework in the UK is derived from EU law, and the new Bill aims to change that by enabling the UK to make a sovereign choice to either mirror or diverge from updated EU rules, to maintain high product safety while supporting businesses and growth. We will continue to report on the development of the Bill in the coming months. #NAWIR #MIR #Brexit #NSAI #KingsSpeech #LegalMetrology