"But we cannot competitively manufacture products when there is surplus global capacity at Motorola's lower-cost sites".
The article points to Germany and Japan, which have higher wage and higher cost manufacturing sectors but run trade surpluses in manufactured goods while the United States has run deficits.
Ten years ago, we enjoyed a trade surplus in advanced technology manufactured goods; today, that category accounts for an $81 billion annual trade deficit.
A key moment was the introduction of "high fructose corn syrup" (HFCS) – a fantastically cheap sugar made from America's surplus maize (in Europe we manufacture something similar from sugar beet).
Senator Campbell said he remembered that as a teenager after World War II, he would watch veterans buy Harleys, manufactured for use by military police, from surplus.
The timing of equipment release had to be carefully planned, however, to avoid harming employment by creating surpluses of manufactured goods.
Britain is the second biggest services exporter in the world and in recent years, the trade deficit in manufactured goods has been partly offset by a large surplus in "invisibles", currently running at about £7bn a month.
Most metal and plastic parts are designed to be manufactured, which means they can be clunky and contain material surplus to the part's function but necessary for making it.
And deeper into the 73-year-old institution, which has been in its current location since 1946, are mountains of military paraphernalia — blue and white striped Russian Navy sweaters, United States Air Force pilot jackets — some surplus, some new, as well as civilian gear manufactured by military contractors.
The money will be used to fund the design, manufacture and installation of gas cleanup modules to validate the use of surplus, hydrogen-rich coke oven gas on a commercial scale by fuel cell power plants to produce electricity.
