The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development considered repatriating manufacturing from Asia to North America and Europe and a shift to shorter, less fragmented value chains—extending from design through manufacturing to distribution within a single country or a single economic unit—that would produce a higher concentration of value added. Swiss Re produced a report about the de-risking of global supply chains (rebalancing them to strengthen resilience). And the Brookings Institution saw the reshoring of advanced manufacturing as the best way to create good jobs.99
