section_path: Views/Manufacturing
section_name: Manufacturing
paragraph_text: Manufacturing
  
  Navarro argues that the decline in US manufacturing jobs is chiefly due to "unfair trade practices and bad trade deals. And if you don't believe that, just go to the booming factories in Germany, in Japan, in Korea, in China, in Malaysia, in Vietnam, in Indonesia, in Italy – every place that we're running deficits with." However, many economists attribute the decline in manufacturing jobs chiefly to automation and other innovations that allow manufacturing firms to produce more goods with fewer workers, rather than trade.
  
  Navarro has been a proponent of strengthening the manufacturing sector's role in the national economy: "We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing.... And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room." The New York Times notes that "experts on manufacturing... doubt that the government can significantly increase factory employment, noting that mechanization is the major reason fewer people are working in factories."
  
  Navarro argues that the decline in US manufacturing jobs is chiefly due to "unfair trade practices and bad trade deals. And if you don't believe that, just go to the booming factories in Germany, in Japan, in Korea, in China, in Malaysia, in Vietnam, in Indonesia, in Italy – every place that we're running deficits with." However, many economists attribute the decline in manufacturing jobs chiefly to automation and other innovations that allow manufacturing firms to produce more goods with fewer workers, rather than trade.
  
  Navarro has been a proponent of strengthening the manufacturing sector's role in the national economy: "We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing.... And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room." The New York Times notes that "experts on manufacturing... doubt that the government can significantly increase factory employment, noting that mechanization is the major reason fewer people are working in factories."