With help from John Hendel
Consumer Technology Association | The show floor being set up at 2023’s CES.
LAS VEGAS — Attendees at this year’s CES are sharply attuned to the sea change of the past several years in America’s approach to trade and manufacturing.
It makes sense: Everyone at the country’s largest consumer-tech conference, from device manufacturers like Bosch and Panasonic to software developers, makes something. Their businesses are dependent on the dizzyingly complex trade network that underpins the global supply chain.
So when politicians decide to reroute that network’s pathways in order to bolster domestic industry it matters, a lot. The glossy, future-focused tech industry has become the center of some old-school policy ideas about supporting American business.
“We’re seeing the emergence of a desire for what some people term ‘industrial policy’,” said Ana Meuwissen, director of…
