February 25, 2011 10:24AM 

# American Manufacturing Continues to Thrive in a Global Economy 

By [Daniel J. Ikenson](https://www.cato.org/people/daniel-j-ikenson) 

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University of Michigan economist and American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry has an excellent [oped](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703652104576122353274221570.html) in today’s *Wall Street Journal* \[$\] about how U.S. manufacturing is thriving. It can’t be emphasized enough how important it is to present such illuminating, factual, compelling analyses to a public that is starved for the truth and routinely subject to lies, half-baked assertions, and irresponsibly outlandish claims about the state of American manufacturing.

The truth matters because U.S. trade and economic policies—your pocketbook—hang in the balance.

For more data, facts, and background about the true state of U.S. manufacturing, please see [this](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8750) Cato policy analysis and these opeds ([one](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10471), [two](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10850),[ three](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8671)).

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[Trade Policy](https://www.cato.org/trade-policy), [Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies](https://www.cato.org/herbert-stiefel-center-trade-policy-studies) 

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