The paper,based on the report"Locating American Manufacturing:Trends in the Geography of Production",illustrated the new trends for metropolitan geography of U.S.manufacturing. It showed a series of descriptive trends affecting the nature and location of American production. According to the report,the metropolitan areas,specialized in manufacturing,contained the great majority of manufacturing jobs and nearly all very high-technology manufacturing jobs. In the mean time,U.S.metropolitan areas have become increasingly specialized in manufacturing and vary widely in wages and the patterns of industry clustering. These trends demonstrated the requirement of geographic high-road policies for American manufacturing. These policies needed a federal platform that is sensitive to the ways in which manufacturing differs geographically. They require state and local decision-makers to take the lead in adapting the high-road approach to their specific needs. <<