Heidi Brock, CEO of the Aluminum Association: Manufacturing Trade Policy Confidential, Pt. 4

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Matt Marthinson, VP Supply Chain, JB Poindexter: The 'Maker-to-User' Trend in the Time of Tariffs

Matt Marthinson, VP of Supply Chain at JB Poindexter & Co., Inc. lets listeners in on how an established transportation industry manufacturer with significant exposure to commodity risk views the tariff landscape, both now and into 2020. Listen in to the full conversation with Lisa Reisman on our current podcast series, "The Maker-to-User Trend in the Time of Tariffs."

Harry Moser, Founder of the Reshoring Initiative: The 'Maker-to-User' Trend in the Time of Tariffs

Harry Moser leads the Reshoring Initiative, a non-profit with the goal of bringing as many jobs back to the US as possible. With record reshoring numbers posted in 2017, it would seem the Trump administration’s tariffs would help make 2018 and 2019 even better for the “maker-to-user” movement (characterized by local sourcing leading to a host of economic and environmental benefits, like farm-to-table) — or would it? "The trend in food is long term because people care about what they put in their bodies," Moser said, but "they don't care so much yet about what they put on their bodies.” Listen in to the full conversation.

Heidi Brock, CEO of the Aluminum Association: Manufacturing Trade Policy Confidential, Pt. 4

Recently, Brock, the president and CEO of the Aluminum Association, got to see the newly commissioned U.S.S. Gabrielle Giffords, a warship named after the former Arizona congresswoman, and it left her with a sense of awe. “I just can't tell you what an amazing experience it was,” she said. To hear more on what a strong domestic aluminum sector has to do with national security, and how the aluminum sector views other hot trade issues of the moment and why, listen in to Lisa Reisman’s conversation with Heidi Brock.