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This weeks edition of Global Insight
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December 14, 2025
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Featured Content
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As the 2026 review of the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) approaches, U.S. policymakers have a rare chance to reinforce a North American partnership that drives our shared competitiveness, resilience, and long-term growth.
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Industry News
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The Global Electronics Association is urging the European Commission to expand the scope of the EU Chips Act, warning that the current focus on semiconductor fabrication alone leaves Europe exposed to significant supply chain vulnerabilities for critical European industries.
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The United States remains above water but is cooling, Europe is expanding only modestly with clear manufacturing weakness, and Asia shows a widening split between a contracting Northeast Asia and still-robust South and Southeast Asia.
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SSbD is still an optional regulatory framework. However, the elements it’s built on aren’t new. The sharing of best practices, tools, failures, and learnings by early adopters of SSbD across different sectors and perspectives can help influence how the framework develops to fit the realities of business.
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Northern Mexico’s manufacturing landscape is facing new policy-related pressures with direct implications for the electronics industry.
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Be on the forefront as the APEX EXPO conference enters a new era. Submit your poster proposal to present at the Advanced Electronic Packaging Conference 2026. Submission deadline: December 18.
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Philip Stoten, Scoop Communications/EMS Now, interviews Kelly Scanlon, Global Electronics Association's Lead Sustainability Strategist, to discuss what sustainability in electronics looks like across a complex, global supply chain.
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The Global Electronics Association has announced the October 2025 findings from its North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.00.
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The Global Electronics Association has announced the October 2025 findings from its North American Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) Statistical Program. The book-to-bill ratio stands at 1.26.
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In early 2025, the Global Electronics Association China office launched the Membership Service Enhancement Program, filled with exclusive member activities, training courses, company visits and networking events.
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The Global Electronics Association announced the release of its Double Materiality Assessment Toolkit, designed to help companies efficiently navigate the complex reporting requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
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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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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
• Technical Programs Manager (Taiwan)
• Account Director, Aerospace & Defense
• Item Quality Assurance Coordinator
• Customer Service Representative (Part-time)
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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 Chris Mitchell
Vice President of Global Government Relations, Global Electronics Association |
Amid growing uncertainty over the economic impact of tariffs on the world’s largest economies, news this week that China’s goods trade surplus with the rest of the world has surpassed $1 trillion year-to-date for the first time on record is particularly striking. The surplus is expected to rise further by year’s end, with high-technology exports playing a major role in the surge.
My first read is coverage of this development from Chatham House.
My second read highlights growing concern in Europe, where the decline in U.S. imports from China is coinciding with a surge of Chinese imports into European markets—prompting alarm among European leaders.
Finally, I’ve attached the tariff revenue tracker from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, which breaks down U.S. tariff revenue by product and country of origin. This chart is especially timely given the anticipation that the Supreme Court may rule as early as this month on the constitutionality of President Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.
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Member Milestones
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STI Electronics, Inc. (Madison, Ala.) celebrated its 40th year as a Global Electronics Association member. See other companies celebrating membership anniversaries.
Member Anniversaries
New Members
Invest in your company by joining the Global Electronics Association and experience the membership benefits of the industry’s premier global association. Learn more about membership.
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Events
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Identifying Circuit Board Issues with Thermal Imaging
December 16, 2025
Pan-European Electronics Design Conference
January 21-22, 2026
WHMA's Annual Global Leadership Summit
January 27-29, 2026
Integrated Electronics Manufacturing and Interconnections (IEMI)
January 29-30, 2026
APEX EXPO 2026
March 14-19, 2026
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