Business Resources & Helpful Links

From planning to execution of your American expansion strategy, you can leverage the insights and ideas of those that have traveled the path before you. Alliance offers several educational resources to help you navigate the challenges of the Americas market.

A | Reports

- World Economic Forum
  The Global Competitiveness Report 2018
- Deloitte
  2016 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index
- PwC
  21st CEO Survey
- KPMG
  Global Manufacturing Outlook 2018
- A.T. Kearney
  The 2018 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index®
- Brookings Institution
  REPORT: Global manufacturing scorecard: How the US compares to 18 other nations
- R&D Magazine
  2018 Global R&D Funding Forecast
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  Federal R&D Budget Dashboard – Interactive Charts

B | Articles

- JR Bechtle & Co.
  Salary Levels: U.S. vs. Europe November 28, 2018
- PoundSterling Live
  The U.S. Dollar is Set to Implode says Bridgewater Founder Ray Dalio
  December 4, 2018
  by Joaquin Monfort
- Harvard Business Review
  Special Report – Reinventing America (March 2012)
  Choosing the United States
  By Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
- Daily Herald
  Caterpillar's move left behind 12,000 workers
  October 27, 2018
  By Steve Tarter
- Industry Week
  US Manufacturing Gauge Tops Estimates as Jobs, Orders Rebound
  Bloomberg | Dec 03, 2018
- Manufacturing.net
  The U.S.-China Trade War Will Continue Hurting the U.S. Economy
  November 30, 2018
  by John M. Scannapieco & Frank Xue
- Matador Network
  INFOGRAPHICS – Europe’s and the Americas’ populations compared in one cool map
- Stanford University
  Exchange Rates, Wages, and International Adjustment: Japan and China versus the United States
  February 2005
  By Ronald McKinnon

C | Industry Organizations and Studies

- National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
  Top 20 Facts About Manufacturing and State Manufacturing Datas
- The Made in America Movement (MAM)
  Look Out China, US Manufacturing is Headed for No. 1
- Reshoring Initiative
  The mission of the Reshoring Initiative® is to bring good, well-paying manufacturing jobs back to the United States
- Semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry (SEMI®)
  North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts October 2018 Billings
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
  RSNA® 2019 Annual Meetings
- Roland Berger – Lazard
  Global Automotive Supplier Study 2018
- Clean Edge, Inc.
  2017 U.S Clean Tech Leadership Index (State and Metro)
- World Salaries.org
  International Average Employment Income Comparisons
- Cushman & Wakefield
  Office Space Across the World – 2014
- Blum Shapiro & Connecticut Business Industry Association (CBIA)
  2017 Survey of Connecticut Businesses

D | Government Agencies

- SelectUSA
  https://www.selectusa.gov/welcome uses the convening power of the U.S. government to showcase investment opportunities and bring investors and U.S. locations together.
- Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
  https://ustr.gov/NAFTA
  USMCA trade agreement references:
  UNITED STATES–MEXICO–CANADA TRADE FACT SHEET Modernizing NAFTA into a 21st Century Trade Agreement
  USMCA Fact Sheet - Connecticut
  https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/fs/USMCA/USMCA_Connecticut.pdf
- Department of Commerce – International Trade Administration (ITA) https://beta.trade.gov/welcome
  The ITR FTA Tariff Tool combines tariff data into a simple and easy to search public interface.
  U.S Commercial Service (CS) https://www.export.gov/services
  U.S. Department of Commerce – New tool shows manufacturing in America carries huge potential savings; a reshoring success “toy story”
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org/
  Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: Data, Analysis and Forecasts
- United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – https://www.cia.gov/index.htm The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
  Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development Fiscal Years 2016–17
  Federal obligations for research and development, by state and other locations: FY 2016
- Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development https://www.ct.gov/ecd/site/default.asp
- Connecticut Exporters
  http://www.ctexporters.com
- Connecticut Department of Labor (CT-DOL)
  2018 Employer Resource Guide
  Providing Programs and Services to Assist Connecticut Businesses