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Listen • 3:49 An employee makes respiratory masks in a family-owned medical equipment factory in Miami on Feb. 15. American manufacturers are thriving but they are running into an unexpected problem: Finding critical supplies. For Americans factories, business is good these days. Almost too good. Unexpectedly strong demand for furniture, appliances and other manufactured goods is providing a windfall to many of the country's industries. But as factory gears spin faster to meet the surging demand, a big headache is emerging: Supply chains are getting stretched more than e...

U.S. factories are thriving thanks to unexpectedly strong demand for all kinds of goods, but that is also leading to unexpected headaches.

US May Boost Rare Earths Mining to Counter Threat From China WASHINGTON—The Chinese communist regime has recently signaled that it could leverage its dominance in rare earth minerals, a threat that has prompted the Biden administration to take action to reduce U.S. reliance on China for rare earths that are used in everything from smartphones to electric vehicles to fighter jets. In 1992, Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping predicted the importance of rare earths to China’s future when he famously said: “The Middle East has oil. China has rare earths.” Today, China is the domina...

2021/02/26 12:56 Taiwan and US flags (Getty Images) Taiwan and US flags (Getty Images) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan will continue to work with the U.S. and coordinate on supply chain issues, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Thursday (Feb. 25). MOFA Spokesperson Joanne Ou (歐江安) stated that Taipei and Washington are important trading partners and that cooperation between the two countries on supply chain issues has always been close, CNA reported. Ou pointed to last November’s U.S.-Taiwan Economic Prosperity ...

WASHINGTON — Automakers have been forced to halt production because of a lack of computer chips. Health care workers battling the coronavirus pandemic had to make do without masks as the United States waited on supplies from China. And pharmaceutical executives worried that supplies of critical drugs could dry up if countries tried to stockpile key ingredients and block exports. Deep disruptions in the global movement of critical goods during...