The U.S. needs better trade deals and if that means walking away from the World Trade Organization to make that happen, President Donald Trump may do just that, a former Trump trade advisor told CNBC on Friday. [Michelle Fox| February 10, 2017 |CNBC] Dan DiMicco, former president and CEO of Nucor, said China has not lived up…
by Michael Stumo The House GOP Tax Reform plan is very bold and includes some very helpful conceptual shifts. But it has some very strange results too. Let’s take a look at how it matches up against CPA’s preferred tax reform for trade competitiveness. Speaker Paul Ryan and Chairman Kevin Brady (Ways and Means Committee)…
The mooted GOP tax plan has drawn some positive attention from trade reformers because it’s the first tax plan in decades to make serious moves designed to reduce America’s trade deficit. [Ian Fletcher| February 12, 2017 |Huffington Post] Unfortunately, unless I’m totally missing something, it’s also a seriously crazy document. So crazy, in fact, that despite not being an…
At National Farmers’ Convention 2017 recently, Brian O’Shaughnessy, co-chairman of the Coalition for a Prosperous America and chairman of Revere Copper Products, talked trade, value-added tax and mercantilism to organization members in Springfield, Missouri. [February 11, 2017 |Midwest Ad Journal] “Since 2000, more than 30 percent of the manufacturing facilities Revere ships products to domestically…
