American Commerce Review covers the US business environment from company decisions outward. The publication therefore distinguishes corporate investment announcements from money already spent, federal awards from private capital commitments and state incentives from total project value.
The preferred evidence base is federal and state government documentation, SEC and company filings, official economic data and company releases. Large project totals are kept attached to the site, state, period and stage in which they were disclosed.
Primary-source hierarchy
Sources are chosen according to the subject and the claim being made. The following source types normally receive priority, with the most specific underlying document preferred over a general summary.
- SEC filings, company investor-relations material and company project announcements
- US Department of Commerce, Department of Labor, Treasury, Federal Reserve, BEA and BLS releases
- State economic-development agencies, public incentive agreements and local planning records
- Official company-location and employment disclosures
- High-quality secondary reporting used to supplement, not replace, accessible primary evidence
Core research rules
Industrial investment
Announced programme value, committed capital, construction spending, federal awards and state incentives are separate fields. They are not added together unless the source establishes that the figures are non-overlapping components of the same total.
Project stage
Announced, awarded, permitted, under construction, commissioned and operating are different stages. A groundbreaking does not establish production. A federal award does not establish that the full private investment programme has been spent.
States and business geography
Headquarters, incorporation, manufacturing location and major employment presence are different concepts. State rankings specify which one is being measured. Multi-state programmes are not allocated to one state without site-level evidence.
Employment and company size
US employment is preferred over global workforce when the subject is state or national employment. Estimated workforce figures are labelled. Fortune, market-cap and revenue rankings keep their own eligibility rules rather than being blended into one definition of company size.
Dataset and permanent-reference rules
US Industrial Investment Tracker
Each row represents an identifiable US facility or site-level programme supported by company or government documentation. Private investment and public incentives remain separate, and the stage column is reviewed independently from the capital figure.
State guides and rankings
State comparisons preserve the year and source of the underlying statistic. A company operating in a state is not automatically counted as headquartered there, and metropolitan data is not substituted for statewide data.
Review dates, corrections and refreshes
Reference pages are reviewed when project stage, investment commitments, official statistics or company disclosures materially change. Older announcements remain dated to their original context. Corrections identify the affected figure or classification rather than silently rewriting the historical record.
Where a material factual error is identified, the correction process follows the Editorial Standards. Research pages are not given a newer date simply to create an appearance of freshness.