Manufacturers Walking Away From Made in China. The Exit Has Terms | Rosemary Coates

The cost of leaving China is something most companies never calculated when they went in. Permits, labor contracts, equipment disputes, and IP exposure can turn an exit into a years-long negotiation—or worse. For manufacturers that built their entire production base there, the question is no longer whether to diversify. It’s whether they’re even allowed to leave.

What’s complicating the picture further is that the pressure is coming from two directions at once: U.S. regulations now require companies to map their supply chains down to the source; China has moved to prohibit exactly that. Companies caught between the two have no clean path forward.

Rosemary Coates spent decades helping companies move production into China before founding the Reshoring Institute to help bring it back. She joins Siyamak Khorrami to explain why most of the manufacturing outflow isn’t heading to the United States—and what that means for the companies still trying to get out.

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