Friend$-$shoring involves:

a$.$ Hiring Americans to manage parts of a business that were once managed by

foreign nationals

b$.$ Moving company facilities from a less politically and business friendly

country to a country with better ties with the United States.

c$.$ Absorbing business processes internally from a third party $($vertically

integrating$)$

d$.$ Relocating an asset or process to the United States or a nearer country from a

more distant country