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Cato Video • November 5, 2007 

# Dan Ikenson sets the record straight on American manufacturing. 

The decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector is greatly exaggerated, according to Dan Ikenson, the associate director of the Cato Institute’s [Center for Trade Policy Studies](http://www.freetrade.org). He spoke at the Cato Policy Forum, [Thriving or Threatened? Perspectives on the State of U.S. Manufacturing in a Global Economy](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=4041), held September 25, 2007. 

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##### [Daniel J. Ikenson](/people/daniel-j-ikenson)

Former Director, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies