A greater proportion of manufacturers are reshoring operations this year compared with 2025, according to the 2026 Reshoring Survey Report from the Reshoring Initiative and Regions Recruiting. This year, 36% of 118 OEM respondents said they had reshored or were actively engaged in reshoring, up from 29% last year.

OEMs said their top reasons for reshoring since January 2025 were tariffs, geopolitical risks and being closer to their customers to shorten delivery times. In fact, 63% of OEMs said they plan to make capital investments in reshoring or domestic expansion.

Manufacturers are actively reshoring and investing despite significant concerns around tariff uncertainty. A majority of OEMs, 57%, named policy uncertainty as their primary challenge, and it dwarfs other challenges — the next most common issue was market pricing and difficulty passing costs on to customers, but only 15% of OEMs identified this challenge.

Taken in isolation, the figures from the Reshoring Initiative report would indicate that tariffs and trade policy are working as intended, incentivizing manufacturers to bring production home, source domestically and avoid costly import taxes.

The reality, however, is more complex with OEMs split on whether to reshore. While 36% of manufacturers say they’re actively reshoring, another 31% of OEMs said they have no plans to reshore. The remainder are considering reshoring or said they don’t import at all and have nothing to reshore.

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