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> ERA Quick Connections — February 2025, Vol. 1

February 2025, Volume 1


MANUFACTURING DATA REPORTS

Manufacturing data reports from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) are released at the beginning of every month and can be accessed at ISM. The latest report says economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in January after 26 months of contraction.

The electrical equipment, appliances & components sector reported growth in January; the computer end electronic products sector reported contraction. Read the full report.


INDUSTRY NEWS

> The Trump administration announced this past weekend it would enact 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods and a 10% additional tariff on Chinese goods. Then on Monday, the White House announced it was pausing the tariff on Mexico and Canada for one month. Read more.

> The U.S. Commerce Department is looking into whether Chinese company DeepSeek has been using U.S. chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China, reported Reuters. Read more.

> In late January, the Supreme Court lifted a recent injunction related to the Corporate Transparency Act. However, there is another court case still pending and the FinCEN agency recently clarified that registration is still voluntary. Read more.


INDUSTRY TRENDS SURVEY

The February ERA Electronics Components Industry Trends survey is now in your inbox! Check your inbox and fill out the survey today.

Please note: ERA sends this survey monthly to one contact from each ERA member firm via email. Please be on the lookout for this survey in your email inbox. Help us make this survey a valuable resource for you and the rest of our members by taking 5 minutes to complete this each month. The results are visible only to ERA members and gives us a great cross-section of what our members see on the horizon for the near and long term.

VIEW SURVEY RESULTS


ERA NEWS

> The 2025 ERA Conference is in 20 short days! We can’t wait to see all of our ERA colleagues and friends in Austin.

-View the Conference brochure.
-Download the official Conference app.
-Register for the Monday night party, if you haven’t already!
-Choose your breakout sessions.


Did you know that all STEP (Sales Training for Electronics Professionals) programming and ERA LIVE programming is archived and available to all?

STEP years 2021-2024 can be found here and each year’s program can be purchased for a small fee by members and non-members. ERA LIVE archives can be found on the ERA LIVE YouTube channel — free to all!

Enjoy ERA content… right at your fingertips!


ERA offers a few benefits to its members you may not know about, including a bulletin board for open job positions and acquisitions and mergers; an industry dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations and terminology; sales training video archives for purchase; industry survey results; and a white paper library! Take advantage today.

 

 


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