Exporters of metals and chemicals should gain immediately, but the longer-term benefits of membership are hard to explain to a population that tends not to look far ahead.
Electronic waste can contain toxic heavy metals and hazardous chemicals that are handled by workers, some of them children.
Before it can be released back into the nearby watercourses it has to meet stringent standards, including maximum levels of ammonia, heavy metals and any chemicals that might cause oxygen depletion.
In some large industries, such as metals, chemicals and cars, they continue in various forms.
The report also highlights the Yorkshire and Humber region as the home to a significant number of companies with strong export potential, particularly manufacturers of plastics, metals, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Shipment volumes of housing and construction products, chemicals, metals and fertilizers all increased, while food and consumer shipments were flat.
Input prices continued to rise, particularly for fuel, other petroleum-based materials, metals, food, and chemicals.
Taking into account labor, materials, transportation, and energy costs, the chemicals, primary metals, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries stand to benefit most from maintaining or expanding facilities in the U.S. Companies in wood, plastic, and rubber products could also benefit significantly, but their lower net imports might limit their benefits from on-shoring.
FORBES: Manufacturing May Be Coming Back to the U.S., Long-Term
Exporters finally began to take advantage of their new competitiveness, as foreign sales of chemicals and metals took off.
In addition, progress in extracting natural gas from shale has created new opportunities for manufacturers in several industries, particularly chemicals and metals, thanks to more affordable energy and greater downstream demand.
FORBES: Manufacturing May Be Coming Back to the U.S., Long-Term
Symyx has developed a machine as big as a walk-in closet that can mix thimble-size quantities of chemicals and metals in parallel, in up to 1, 000 combinations per day, to test and create new materials.
FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.
But as the year goes on, he thinks more economically sensitive sectors, such as materials (metals, chemicals, paper companies) and technology stocks, will strengthen.
These companies are principally engaged in the business of producing raw materials, including paper or wood products, chemicals, construction materials, and mining and metals.
Chelation, from the Greek for "claw, " employs amino-acid-based chemicals that latch onto lead, mercury and other metals, allowing the body to more easily excrete them.
However, the textiles, fur and leather sector fell by 8.3%, and there was contraction in engineering and allied industries (-0.8%), chemicals, coke, refined petroleum products and nuclear fuel (-3.2%) and metals and metal products (-0.4%).
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