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New Balance backs plea to source military’s sports shoes from US

26/04/2013

US sportswear brand New Balance is backing 15 senators who are asking President Obama to apply the Berry Amendment to athletic footwear so that manufacturing jobs can be created in the US. The agreement states that clothing and equipment used by the US military should be manufactured in the country rather than imported, where possible. If the...

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