[Ads-l] Nearshoring

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Word Spy has a pertinent entry for "nearshoring". The earliest
citation listed is dated July 04, 2002.
https://wordspy.com/words/nearshoring/

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NEARSHORING
pp. Restructuring a company's workforce by moving jobs to a nearby
foreign country.
Also Seen As
near-shoring

2002 (earliest)
"We want to help the companies by managing their entire IT spend with
sourcing strategies. We would like to be part of big companies and
help them manage sourcing, decide portfolio of whether to go for
outsourcing or nearshoring or onshoring, apart from negotiating on
their behalf with providers," he said.
—“Neoit.com offers to manage outsourcing,” Business Line, July 04, 2002
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 9:15 AM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Isn't nearshoring (or near-shoring) decades old? Certainly pre-NAFTA.
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 9:02 AM James Landau <
> 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/mexico-s-super-peso-puts-squeeze-on-us-remittances/ar-AA1eAwyx?cvid=42d012722cfb44ae9a221d0c13799b92&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=25
> >
> > <quote>Lifted by higher central bank interest rates, as well as the
> > relocation of manufacturing capacity to the region from Asia - a trend
> > known as nearshoring - the peso has risen by over 14% against the dollar
> > this year, outperforming international peers.
> >
> > James Landau
> > jjjrlandau at netscape.com
> >
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> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> >
>
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