Abstract Sintered neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets and lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are essential in a number of clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles wind turbines. The United States (US) has some manufacturing capacity for Li-ion almost no producing sintered NdFeB magnets. As result, the US imports significant quantities these Trade statistics on imported magnets, however,...

Africa has the highest disease burden in the world and continues to depend on pharmaceutical imports to meet public health needs. As Asian manufacturers of generic medicines begin to operate under a more protectionist intellectual property regime, their ability to manufacture medicines at prices that are affordable to poorer countries is becoming more circumscribed. The Doha Declaration on the ...

Many manufacturing processes have become fully automated resulting in high production volumes. However, this is not the case for inspection. Shortening the inspection times in manufacturing industry using the available information resources can result in the reduction of production lead-time and overall costs. Rapid advances in machine tool technology have resulted in fast processing Computer N...

Illegal timber harvesting is unsustainable and takes place around the world and in virtually every country that engages in forest harvesting. However, while the extent of these activities may be quite limited or negligible in some countries, in others they can lead to significant forest depletion, and subsequent biological and economic losses. China’s wood products industry has become reliant o...

As U.S. lamb imports increased relative to domestic production, and the relative share of chilled to frozen lamb imports increased, importers of chilled lamb have become less responsive to domestic and import prices, while the direct opposite is the case for frozen lamb imports. From 1990 to 2003, chilled lamb imports from Australia and New Zealand became less and less responsive to U.S. prices...

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undoubtedly, more attention is being made in the word service and industries that can be learnt from manufacturing for improving its production out puts and their associated quality and cost. these include such lean production, jit, tqm, and the relationship between buyer, supplier and finally the customer satisfaction. the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between three...

Pollution emitted by US manufacturers has been declining steadily over the past several decades, while at the same time, the real value of manufacturing output has been increasing. This cleanup has two sources: advances in production or abatement processes (“technology”), and changes in the composition of goods manufactured in the United States. The composition changes can be divided further in...

Conventional trade theory, which combines the Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, implies that expanded trade between developed and developing countries will increase wage equality in the former. Th is theory is widely applied. It serves as the basis for estimating the impact of trade on wages using two-sector simulation models and the net factor content of trade. It leads...

Logistics is a complex set of activities. Hesse and Rodrigue (2004) have developed a much quoted definition that includes a “wide set of activities dedicated to the transformation and circulation of goods, such as the material supply of production, the core distribution and transport function, wholesale and retail and also the provision of households with consumer goods as well as the related i...