Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

Why small manufacturers are rethinking China #SupplyChain

Name: Why small manufacturers are rethinking China #SupplyChain
Uploaded: 2025-04-09T21:31:22+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Tom Burton (uploaded April 9, 2025) in which Burton recounts talking with small manufacturing business owners who…

9 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Tom Burton (uploaded April 9, 2025) in which Burton recounts talking with small manufacturing business owners who currently source at least some parts from China; those owners said their immediate plan is to find more local (U.S.) suppliers or partially reshore sourcing.

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I have friends that are, you know, small manufacturing businesses. And I talked to them not last night, but the night before, and I said to them, I said, and they all get their at least a portion of the parts that they use for manufacturing from China. And I said, okay. With this coming about, what are you going to do? The very first two, for both of them, the very two first two things out of their mouth was, we are going to find somebody more local in the United States to get those parts from or at least partially source them from, which is exactly what the strategy is.