While it is too early to tell what the exact impact on U.S. industry and diplomacy will be from the latest tariff threat announced recently by President Donald Trump on more than $500 billion of Chinese imports, one certain result is that the price of goods will rise in the short term.

To offset what are sure to be rising costs, it is necessary for policymakers, economists and corporations to consider a different mode of manufacturing operations: distributed manufacturing.

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