APEC Sees Challenges in Reshoring as Pandemic Hits Supply Chains

Huizhou Baizhan Glass Co.

Maybe it’s more difficult to shift supply lines after all.

That’s one message from a new report from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade group, or APEC, which found that improving the resilience of supply chains is neither simple nor cost free. The research comes as the pandemic continues to trigger supply disruptions and prompt discussion of global manufacturers moving their production closer to home.