Editor’s note: Rep. Bill Pascrell wants to chair the trade subcommittee of Ways & Means. He has been a strong fair trader, is receptive to CPA ideas, but has not yet fully embraced “strategic trade in the US interest”, which is CPA’s view of trade policy. Rep. Richard Pascrell (D-NJ), the ranking member of the…
One morning in October, a smiling Wilbur Ross, President Trump’s commerce secretary and most visible trade warrior, enters the lobby of an Embassy Suites hotel in Washington. Clad in a blue suit, white shirt, and red tie, which upon closer inspection turns out to be decorated with tiny beavers, Ross greets members of a national…
Editors note: this story is important because it again debunks the disproven claim that automation caused manufacturing job losses rather than trade. Looking back, there were two kinds of people who lived in America in 2016: people who believed Donald Trump, and people who believed data. [Gwynn Guilford | November 8, 2018 | Quartz] Trump…
Editors note: the department of commerce is becoming very aggressive with self initiating trade enforcement cases. Wilbur Ross is doing a good job, unlike his immediate predecessors. The Commerce Department on Wednesday announced affirmative final determinations against imports of Chinese aluminum sheet, advancing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations that were self-initiated by the agency last…
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director Three Internet security experts have accused state-owned telecom giant China Telecom of diverting internal US Internet traffic through China. The purpose, apparently, was corporate espionage. According to Doug Madory, an expert on Internet traffic at Silicon Valley software maker Oracle, China Telecom’s network sent out false signals that diverted…
