Category: 2026

Meet TMA’s 2026 Chairman, Shiv Sivakumar

“The biggest compliment is when my colleagues say, ‘I want my son to work here.’”

For Shiv Sivakumar (Siv a ku’ mar), who emigrated to America from India when he was 23 years old, hearing comments like that about the company he runs is inspiring and rewarding.

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Di Leo: Trade Fraud and the Manufacturing Community 

Trade fraud hit the headlines on Tuesday, July 14, when a joint press conference headed by the U.S. Department of Justice was held in the Chicago suburb of Bensenville, Illinois, announcing that the federal Trade Fraud Task Force has reached $1 billion in fines, penalties, judgments and additional tariff collections in the year since the task force was established – and it was a Chicago case that put them over the top. 

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TMA e-News Bulletin May 27, 2026

NEWS Small Business Optimism Below Average but Steady NFIB’s April Small Business Economic Trends report saw small business optimism stabilize with a 0.1-point increase to

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