Passage of new trade pact a huge win for Texas: Ratification of the #USMCA is critical to the economic future of Texas because it will preserve and strengthen our trade ties with Canada and Mexico. @DRC @Toyota https://t.co/ofXIknN4MY

Thank you @JohnCornyn & @SenTedCruz for supporting jobs and trade #USMCA https://t.co/2TEI1kqKwd

What do Texas farmers and manufacturers think of America’s new trade deal with China? The word I kept hearing over and over today: encouraged. Hear from members of @TXManufacturers, @NCottonCouncil and @PCGNews in our @KXAN_News coverage: https://t.co/bOlP1ugp83 #txlege #txag 🌾 https://t.co/OhAoWsxKpa

Plastic consumer products manufacturer Merrick Engineering announced in December that it would shift its headquarters from Southern California to Central Texas. #WACO https://t.co/8M5hSZFkfe

Living in an increasingly digital world, it’s important for both large and small companies to be able to move data securely and seamlessly across borders. USMCA contains strong rules on digital trade that will help facilitate that movement. #USMCAnow https://t.co/4nvxLMvw69

A California company that’s moving to North Texas has landed in McKinney with a new headquarters. KVP International Inc., a Chino, Calif.-based company that designs and #manufactures veterinary medical devices and surgical supplies. https://t.co/lp73jld4gn

#madeinTexas https://t.co/fmYREaLaF1

"Now, our farmers, manufacturers, and workers will finally have a trade agreement that modernizes North American trade, boosts our economy, and strengthens our nation’s role in the global trading market." Read more from @RepBradWenstrup on how USMCA is a big win for America! https://t.co/HSVNRvKn6S

Growth in the Texas #manufacturing sector rebounded in December, according to a survey of business executives conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. https://t.co/BhSmBCpeN6

Merrick Engineering, Inc., announced that it’s moving its headquarters from Corona Calif., to #Waco and plans to build a 400,000-square-foot #manufacturing and distribution facility. @SenatorBirdwell @GregAbbott_TX https://t.co/bnB84GQPky

Great News in East Texas! New #manufacturing company expected to bring 150 jobs to East Texas: The facility is more than 3,000 square feet and promises to deliver protection mats to more than 300 industrial products around the world. Senator Robert Nichols State Representative Trent Ashby Lufkin/Angelina County Chamber of Commerce

In the new #manufacturing and logistics program, students can receive production technician and Occupational and Safety and Health Administration certifications that will have them ready to step out of their cap and gown and directly into a career.

"Several years ago we would have thought that there would have never been another plant built and here we are now," said Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames. Ames sees the expansion as an economic benefit for Southeast Texas. #manufacturing

General Motors UAW-talks to end strike sow confusion, frustration.

The Texas Workforce Commission awards a $107,705 Skills Development Fund grant to a Brownsville company in the #manufacturing sector. Rio Grande Valley Partnership

Great news in Kyle, Texas! The new #manufacturing lab is expected to create 850 new jobs. Kyle city leaders called it the biggest economic development project the city’s ever landed. “This is not going to be a distribution center with 50 minimum wage jobs, said Kyle Mayor Travis Mitchell. “This is going to be a massive capital improvement, heavy, high wage job-type facility.”

Texas stands out as the nation’s leader for logistics. For the 17th year in a row, Texas topped the nation as the number one exporting state.

Texas' #manufacturing sector continued to grow last month, according to business executives surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, but at a slower pace than in August.

NASA reveals small business partnerships for Moon, Mars technologies: 14 American companies to split $42.3 million to enable Moon to Mars exploration.