TRADE POLICY SPECIALIST, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS
Mike Dolan is a trade policy specialist and lobbyist for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. A former labor lawyer and long-time political organizer, Mike brings three decades of coalition building and activism to the fight for Fair Trade. Mike has joined the Coalition for a Prosperous America at several of our meetings from California to DC and feels strongly that if CPA didn’t exist, “we’d have to invent it.”
Companies making goods from the Department of War (DoW) will now need much clearer visibility into their supply chains, especially if a product they make or buy includes critical minerals.
Trade structured to support production raises productivity, and rising productivity raises the incomes that fund consumption durably, out of earnings instead of borrowing. That is the only durable answer to the cost-of-living crisis: paychecks that can carry the price of housing, healthcare, and childcare.
For years, the most critical link in our drug supply chain — the upstream chemistry — has been invisible to our own regulators. A medicine finished in Europe is not necessarily a European medicine, and this rule finally begins to expose that fiction.
A new joint white paper finds that aluminum extrusion — the most capital-intensive step in frame production — must occur in the United States for solar module frames to qualify for the Section 45Y/48E domestic content bonus credit.
