The AMP is geared towards helping U.S. manufacturers reduce costs and speed ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor, creating high quality jobs and increasing U.S. global competitiveness in manufacturing.

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Their mission is to come up with a way to get ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor to the marketplace as swiftly as possible, which will help create quality jobs, and make our businesses more competitive.

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For example the pharmaceutical industry is increasingly drawing on India's advanced but comparatively inexpensive medicinal chemistry capabilities, while simultaneously harnessing China's manufacturing power and utilizing specialty services unique to particular geographies, such as Vietnam's expertise in tropical diseases.

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