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AMT champions the interests of the manufacturing technology industry in Washington, DC. We work with Congress and the Administration on issues of importance to our industry, forcefully supporting legislative and regulatory proposals that would help our industry and opposing measures that would hurt. **A Useful Sales Tool** Newly Enacted Extension - Expires at the end of this tax year! 2010 Section 179 "Small Business" Expensing Fact Sheet 2009 Depreciation/Expensing Fact Sheet |
The U.S. government, recognizing the national importance of our manufacturing sector to a vital sustainable economy and a strong defense industrial base, will implement policies that:
Incentivize Innovation and R&D in new products and manufacturing technologies
- Assure the availability of capital
- Increase global competitiveness
- Minimize structural cost burdens
- Enhance collaboration between government, academia, and industry
- Build a better educated and trained “smartforce”
Incentivize Innovation and R&D in new products and manufacturing technologies
- Implement an Science, Technology, Innovation Diffusion (“STID”) policy and infrastructure (including Manufacturing Extension Partnerships)
- Improve the R&D tax credit and make it permanent
- Fund targeted, sustaining economic growth technologies
- Revise SBA/government lending requirements to manufacturers – qualifications should consider economic conditions
- Use the expanded DPA Title III lending authority to provide credit to defense critical manufacturers
- Provides incentives to banks making and maintaining capital loans to qualified manufacturers
- Modernize U.S. export control policy
- Strengthen intellectual property protection
- Streamline the business visa process with major trading partners
- Lower business taxes and avoid any new tax increases on U.S. manufacturers
- Avoid excessive regulations
- Encourage investment in retooling plants and new equipment
- Implement an STID policy and infrastructure (including MEPs)
- Create a standing Interagency Manufacturing Structure made up of Cabinet officials, industry leaders, and academics
- Support and sponsor targeted technology challenges
- Develop a national manufacturing skills certification program
- Support grants, scholarships, and incentives for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (“STEM”) degrees
- Utilize MEPs as centers of manufacturing excellence to train and support local manufacturers
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