Companies are reconsidering where to put their factories as the trade war mounts, but few places can match China’s convenience and reliability.

“If it’s broke, fix it!” is a Patagonia company motto, and the company takes the motto seriously. It has operated a recycling and repair program, Worn Wear, in various permutations since 2005.

By now, American manufacturers were supposed to be stampeding back to the U.S., making products at home for the local market. So why isn’t that happening to any great degree?

The next designer handbag you buy is less likely to bear a “made in China” label.

Dan Widmaier, cofounder and CEO of Bolt Threads, dons a white lab coat with his name and the numeral one — for employee number one — on the back before opening a door to the company’s lab. Inside, Widmaier and his cofounders, David Breslauer and Ethan Mirsky, are growing artificial spider silk, something that scientists around the world have been trying to do for decades.