AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 26: U.S. Enforcement Trends Targeting Foreign Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers
Decoding the Key Management Personnel Requirements
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Candid Conversations with Suppliers in Distress
The Labor Law Insider: Union Activity, Employment Engagement, and Changes in the Manufacturing Industry, Part II
The Labor Law Insider: Union Activity, Employment Engagement, and Changes in the Manufacturing Industry
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast S2E5: Jeffrey Chang, President of FPS Food Process Solutions, On Starting a Commercial Manufacturing Business as an Immigrant and the Opportunities for the Industry
Five Questions, Five Answers: Driving the I-75 with Rick Walker of GAMA Georgia
Williams Mullen Manufacturing Edge: Environmental Enforcement in the Current Regulatory Climate
Making Trade Inclusive for All Americans Podcast: A Conversation with the President of the Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA)
President Trump’s May 5, 2025, executive order titled “Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines” sets out the administration’s goals to increase the domestic manufacture of critical...more
The U.S. government is pushing to redomesticate the manufacturing of pharmaceutical, biotech, gene therapy, and medical device products, both to bolster U.S. manufacturing generally and to address continuing shortages of...more
We at Schwabe and Aldrich are excited to share the insightful findings from the third edition of our State of Manufacturing in the Pacific Northwest survey. Having conducted similar surveys in 2018 and 2021, we’ve maintained...more
Welcome to Industrials Regulatory News and Trends. In this regular bulletin, DLA Piper lawyers provide concise updates on key developments in the industrials sector to help you navigate the ever-changing business, legal, and...more
Vietnam's growth ambitions - Barely two months into the year, Vietnam's parliament has raised the country's GDP growth target for 2025 from 6.5% to 7% to at least 8%. The ambitious GDP target rides on the back of an...more
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.” This directive instructs the...more
President Trump’s promise to impose a new 25% tariff on goods produced in Mexico has prompted many companies to consider alternatives to their current or planned operations in Mexico. The decades following the 1994 North...more
Foley & Lardner announced the 2024 installment of its Auto Trends series—A Year in Review: Updates, Trends and the Road Ahead. This series delves deep into the transformative forces shaping the automotive world by providing...more
Mexico is a key player in both the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and Latin American regions. Nearshoring, the practice of relocating an operating business or supply chain closer to home markets, is a rapidly...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped the facilities management (FM) outsourcing landscape. Companies have transitioned from fully office-based work to home-based work, and now to hybrid models, prompting a...more
The Solar Energy Industries Association (“SEIA”) issued a November, 2023 report titled: “Energizing American Battery Storage Manufacturing” (“Report”) SEIA describes the report as a comprehensive...more
Williams Mullen’s What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress video series describes how to identify your critical suppliers that might be in jeopardy, provides suggestions on how you can help them, and shares how you can...more
After a long period of economic and political stability, the world entered an era of relative turmoil with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The effects of this and subsequent events have been acutely felt by businesses....more
As the pandemic highlighted issues in the global supply chain and as the United States intensifies its investment in clean energy, more renewable energy manufacturers than ever are considering onshoring (or nearshoring)...more
Key developments - The most recent article in Foley & Lardner’s Supply Chain Disruption Series provides an overview of current issues affecting the production and supply of lithium-ion batteries . Click here to subscribe...more
Welcome to a blog post series on Exiger’s fight to secure supply chains, sponsored by Exiger LLC. In this series, we will explore the ongoing efforts of Exiger to lead the discussion and enhancement of Supply Chain Risk...more
In a move to strengthen U.S. supply chain resiliency, the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) unanimously approved a new domestic financing program, "Make More in America Initiative," on...more
The impacts of COVID-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, chip shortages, and skyrocketing fuel costs have many manufacturers re-evaluating their global production and supply chain decisions. The ever-changing risks and...more
Background - Recent supply disruptions in the semiconductor industry have highlighted the dependence of many global economies, including the EU, on imported chips manufactured in Asia....more
Companies continue to see headlines about cyberattacks, but manufacturing companies, specifically, have become more targeted in the last few years. In the most recent issue of The Illinois Manufacturer, Molly Arranz and Sofia...more
If the iconic scene from the movie “The Graduate” were recreated today, Dustin Hoffman’s character Benjamin would be pulled aside by a local businessman who would have two words of advice for him: “electric vehicles.” As...more
In late 2012, we created the Manufacturing Law Blog with the goal of providing our manufacturing clients with a holistic approach to the unique issues they face in their global operations. ...more
The pandemic has spared no industry. As fast-food chains have sought to drive business through chicken sandwich wars, Burger King’s release of its chicken sandwich was delayed in Michigan due to a shortage of pickle jars....more
A Senate antitrust subcommittee hearing on Thursday turned into an airing of grievances session for smaller tech companies focusing on their issues with Apple and Google’s app stores and their “stranglehold on the business of...more
On April 14, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the immediately-in-effect guidance “Remote Interactive Evaluations of Drug Manufacturing and Bioresearch Monitoring Facilities During the COVID-19 Public...more