The Global Electronics Association is pleased to offer these fact sheets to provide a better understanding of the programs we offer and how they benefit the industry.
Better Electronics for a Better World.
That’s the vision for the Global Electronics Association, the voice of the electronics industry. With a mission to promote industry growth and strengthen supply chain resilience, the organization focuses on four key initiatives: Workforce, Sustainability, Next-Generation Technologies, and Digital Manufacturing
Interconnected: Global Electronics Trade in an Age of Disruption
On June 23, 2025, the Global Electronics Association released "Interconnected: Global Electronics Trade in an Age of Disruption." The inaugural study is the first comprehensive mapping of electronics interdependencies at this scale. This short summary touches on the key points of the complete report.
Interconnected: Global Electronics Trade in an Age of Disruption
The electronics manufacturing industry is the most globally interconnected in the world. Trade in electronics inputs and finished goods has reached $4.5 trillion, representing more than 20% of global merchandise trade. Behind every smartphone, laptop, or server lies a complex web of international transactions involving a wide range of components, including semiconductors, batteries, connectors, printed circuit boards, and hundreds of other components. While many discussions focus on where a product is assembled, this report emphasizes the critical importance of where it begins: where components are made, sourced, and moved.
Resilience in the electronics trade will not come from isolation. It will stem from clarity, cooperation, and a strategic perspective on how global integration can be shaped.
Industrial strength in electronics manufacturing depends not on self-reliance, but on strategic participation in global supply networks.
Finished goods may get the headlines, but it’s the flow of components that defines global electronics trade.
Creating Pathways to Rewarding Electronics Careers
The Global Electronics Association is working to close this talent gap and create brighter futures with a comprehensive workforce development strategy. We help members attract new talent, upskill existing employees, and retain a motivated, future-ready workforce.
Sustainability in Electronics
Evolve, the electronics evolution energized by sustainability, as the Global Electronics Association will provide the tools the industry needs to drive growth and thrive, remaining competitive for the future.
Industry Intelligence Reports
The Global Electronics Association delivers the critical data and analysis that today’s electronics manufacturers need to stay competitive and prepared. Our industry intelligence connects the dots between economic trends, market dynamics, policy shifts, and supply chain developments for the entire electronics value chain. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of resources with a global perspective and a commitment to accuracy.
Roadmap to Resilience - USA Fact Sheet
In today’s world, our lives are increasingly dependent on electronics. Electronics are at the heart of virtually every economic activity, making the electronics supply chain vital to our economies, governments, and daily lives.
Across South Asia and East Asia, the Global Electronics Association (formerly known as IPC) is collaborating with government bodies in China, Japan, South Korea, India, and other nations to develop a robust, globally competitive electronics sector.
Ket Strategies are: Global Standards Collaboration; Technological Innovation; Sustainability; Reduce or Remove Trade Barriers
Roadmap to Resilience - European Fact Sheet
In today’s world, our lives are increasingly dependent on electronics. Electronics are at the heart of virtually every economic activity, making the electronics supply chain vital to our economies, governments, and daily lives.
But when it comes to securing the electronics supply chain, no single company or country can stand alone. Electronics have the most globally integrated supply chain of any industry, surpassing even the automotive sector in cross-border complexity. That degree of interdependence challenges the notion that any one nation can build a complete domestic ecosystem for electronics manufacturing.
Electronics power Europe’s global leadership in industrial electronics, defense and aerospace, medical technologies, and communications infrastructure. Moreover, electronics play a crucial role in the digital and green transitions. However, the EU’s market share in critical electronics components is shrinking. The Global Electronics Association calls on the European Union institutions and national governments to adopt this policy agenda.
Establish a region-wide electronics Manufacturing strategy, level the playing field through regulatory and tax changes, collaborate for a future-proof skilled workforce, and reduce or remove trade barriers while we rebuild
Roadmap to Resilience - USA Fact Sheet
In today’s world, our lives are increasingly dependent on electronics. Electronics are at the heart of virtually every economic activity, making the electronics supply chain vital to our economies, governments, and daily lives.
But when it comes to securing the electronics supply chain, no single company or country can stand alone. Electronics have the most globally integrated supply chain of any industry, surpassing even the automotive sector in cross-border complexity. That degree of interdependence challenges the notion that any one nation can build a complete domestic ecosystem for electronics manufacturing.
Well-documented supply chain gaps in the U.S. electronics industry pose a threat to U.S. national and economic security. On behalf of our members, the Global Electronics Association calls on the U.S. Administration and Congress to adopt the following actions to build real resilience “from silicon to systems.”
Key USA strategy: Develop a Proactive National Electronics Strategy; Unleash Investment in the Electronics Industry; Secure the National Defense Supply Chain; Build Talent Pipelines and Career Pathways; Reduce or Remove Trade Barriers While We Rebuild