Editors note: Good news. An important expansion of buy America programs. We need to expand it even more this year so US taxpayer money is spent on buying made in USA goods. New recruits at Lackland Air Force Base shuffle into a room stacked high with shoe boxes. They’re in the middle of one of…

Editor’s note: CPA has previously informed USTR of the impact of China’s devaluation since the tariffs were put in place. Ambassador Lighthizer’s decision against an exclusion process is based, in part, on that devaluation.  [February 27, 2019 | InsideTrade.com] Despite instructions from the House Appropriations Committee in a government funding package signed by the president…

Editors note: Beware slow walking. Trade Ambassador Lighthizer knows this risk.  Cui Tiankai says aspects requiring legislation could take ‘five to 10 years’, although some requested measures tally with Beijing’s own plans. Ambassador sees US action against Huawei as separate issue to trade talks but calls pursuit of the Chinese company ‘stupid’ and ‘absurd’ [Owen…

Editor’s note: Farmers and ranchers face subsidized global oversupply in commodities just as manufacturers do. China is a culprit but so is Brazil and other countries. The factories of Rural America are its fields. We need an agro-industrial strategy because we are mostly defenseless in the face of other countries’ agro-industrial strategy.  Washington, DC – U.S.…