The Department of Commerce's Assess Costs Everywhere tool (ACE) highlights the hidden costs and risks that manufacturers need to consider when deciding where to locate their operations or supply chains in the United States.  Since launching ACE in April 2013, the Department's Office of the Chief Economist has periodically updated the data and research underlying its analysis of 10 costs and risks.  This week, coinciding with the third SelectUSA Investment Summit, we are announcing a new set of updates to the tool.

Assess Costs Everywhere (ACE) has been recently revised with more modern, up-to-date information. ACE is a resource developed by the Office of the Chief Economist in the Department of Commerce to outline the hidden costs and risks U.S. firms need to consider when evaluating the location of manufacturing operations and supply chains. ACE was originally launched in April 2013, and we are constantly reviewing it to ensure the data and research are current.

Highlights from our newly updated research include:

In April, the Commerce Department developed the Assess Costs Everywhere (ACE) tool, which outlines the costs and risks firms need to weigh when considering the location of manufacturing operations and supply chains. Many of these are hidden or hard to quantify. This post, the eleventh in our series of blogs on ACE, explores one such area: political and security risks.

The Department of Commerce’s Assess Costs Everywhere (ACE) tool helps firms estimate the costs and risks associated with locating operations or supply chains overseas. Today, we are focusing on intellectual property (IP) in our eleven-part series highlighting the relatively low costs and risks of keeping business right here in America. Be sure to check out earlier Economics and Statistics Administration blog posts here.