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This weeks edition of Global Insight
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November 19, 2025
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Featured Content
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Last week, the Global Electronics Association submitted comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as part of the upcoming joint review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. This review comes at a pivotal moment for North American manufacturing and for the future of our shared electronics ecosystem.
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Industry News
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Across the world, electronics power progress, connecting people, enabling medical technologies, driving defense systems, and advancing smart, sustainable industries. Behind this innovation is a global community ensuring quality, reliability, and responsible growth.
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Global manufacturing data released in the last month suggests a patchwork recovery taking shape. While signs of stabilization are emerging in parts of Europe and Asia, momentum remains fragile in the United States.
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The Global Electronics Association recently held standards development committee meetings in Europe, enabling us to ensure meaningful participation on a global scale. By meeting in-region, the Association expands engagement among European engineers, manufacturers, and training organizations.
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As the world’s climate leaders convene at COP30, their decisions will ripple far beyond the conference. For electronics manufacturing — from printed circuit board production through product assembly to end-of-life recycling — the agenda is a roadmap for transformation.
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In this episode of EMS & The Economist with Global Electronics Association Chief Economist Shawn DuBravac, we start with the longest U.S. government shutdown on record and how it choked off official data when leaders needed it most.
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Philippe Leonard, head of the Global Electronics Association’s European office, recently shared what’s happening for our industry in Europe, details of the Hand Soldering World Championship at productronica, and a preview of a new Cable & Wire Harness competition kicking off in 2026.
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With the European Chemicals Agency preparing its final Risk Assessment Committee opinion and draft Socio-Economic Analysis Committee opinion on the upcoming PFAS restriction, the Global Electronics Association has provided updated feedback on the revised 2025 Draft Restriction Proposal.
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A new report from the Global Electronics Association, “Powering the U.S. Economy: The Economic Reach of Electronics Manufacturing,” finds that U.S. electronics manufacturing remains a powerful engine of economic growth and resilience.
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There were no stadium lights, no roaring crowds, or a referee blowing a whistle, but on September 25, the energy felt exactly like a championship final. The audience was witnessing something historic: Mexico’s first national hand-soldering championship.
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External funding, once considered the domain of universities, nonprofits and government contractors, is now firmly on the table for the private sector.
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Last week, Mexico and the United States have agreed to postpone a tariff deadline for at least “a few more weeks” following a conversation between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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At IMPACT 2025 in Taiwan, a key highlight was the growing influence of AI in electronics packaging design, assembly, and manufacturing.
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The Global Electronics Association announces its APEX EXPO keynote lineup, featuring industry titans exploring the frontiers of quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and the electrification of global industries.
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Are you ready to capitalize on what is next and join our team of dedicated, skilled and enthusiastic employees? Here are current job openings:
• Vice President, U.S. Government Relations
• Manager, Design Standards and Innovation Programs
• Japan Representative
• Technical Programs Manager (Taiwan)
• Account Director, Aerospace & Defense
• Item Quality Assurance Coordinator
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For more than 50 years, IPC standards have been the processes, procedures and criteria that the global electronics industry implement daily to design and build electronics better with quality, reliability and consistency.
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The term skills gap is used to describe a mismatch between the skills that employers need and the skills that job seekers possess. It seems straightforward enough, but it’s often used as a catch-all phrase that oversimplifies more complex and multifaceted issues.
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Plan your professional development with the Global Electronics Association’s Programs Calendar. Maximize your time and efforts by coordinating your schedule with ours.
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My Top Three Reads
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This week's picks from Kelly Scanlon
Lead Sustainability Strategist, Global Electronics Association |
As the days grow shorter and we find ourselves flipping the light switches earlier each evening, it's worth appreciating the remarkable technology keeping our seasonal gloom at bay. Here are three interesting reads about the LEDs that have revolutionized how we illuminate our increasingly dark winter afternoons here in the Northern Hemisphere.
1. Rapid technological progress in white light-emitting diodes and its source in innovation and technology spillovers. Nature Energy (2025). In less than two decades, LED efficiency jumped from 5.8% to 38.8%, while costs plummeted 95.5% from $1.10 to just $0.05 per package. By 2020, LED lighting was saving 580 TWh annually in the USA alone, equivalent to all the energy produced by every solar panel in the country.
2. Potential long-term global environmental implications of efficient light-source technologies. Journal of Industrial Ecology (2016). This study projects LED market penetration reaching 70% by 2050 in a likely scenario, or potentially 90% in a high-adoption scenario. They use life cycle assessment to evaluate potential impacts to human health and the environment from this shift.
3. LED lighting systems for smart buildings: a review. IET Smart Cities (2020). Modern LEDs convert 40% of electricity directly to light, last over 100,000 hours, and respond in nanoseconds making them ideal for intelligent building systems that adapt to our needs as the sun sets earlier each day. This article highlights these efficiencies and the technologies that make navigating shorter days a bit easier for all.
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Member Milestones
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American Hakko Products Inc. (Valencia, Calif.) celebrated its 30th year as a Global Electronics Association member. See other companies celebrating membership anniversaries.
Member Anniversaries
New Members
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Events
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IPC Hand Soldering Competition 2025 Regional Qualification - Germany
November 18-19, 2025
Global Electronics Association at productronica
November 18-21, 2025
Turning Supply Chain Security into Business Value
November 19. 2025
EFECS – the European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems
December 3-4, 2025
Pan-European Electronics Design Conference
January 21-22, 2026
WHMA's Annual Global Leadership Summit
January 27-29, 2026
APEX EXPO 2026
March 14-19, 2026
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