Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA, attended the stakeholder meeting in Chevy Chase Maryland today on the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, also known as TAFTA. Negotiators from the European Union and the US also attended. Various special interests and nongovernmental organizations presented their priorities, objections and or support for the negotiations. Michael advocated support…
Reposted from King & Spaulding Trade and Manufacturing Alert ***** U.S. Department Of Commerce Seeks Applicants For Manufacturing Council By October 14, 2014 Erienne Kilgore & Patrick J. Togni | October 1, 2014 | King & Spaulding Trade and Manufacturing Alert The U.S. Department of Commerce announced the renewal of the Manufacturing Council on…
The following was written by Bob Johns, CPA Policy Committee member: Balanced Trade – Keep It Simple Trade is complicated. Trade barriers are complex and sophisticated. Trade agreements are filled with legalese to a fault. Circumvention is many things – devious, hard to trace, complicated in many ways, subject to corruption. But in…
Reposted from Dan DiMicco’s blog of September 26, 2014 * Excerpt from my overview on leadership……”We discussed the critical role of Teamwork and our Pay for Performance system; not just theirs but for all levels in the company. We also discussed how working for Nucor was not for everyone. How it was critical that we…
Michele Nash-Hoff | September 24, 2014 When I was writing the chapter on what manufacturers can do to save themselves in 2008 for my book, Can American Manufacturing be Saved? Why we should and how we can, one of my top recommendations was to implement lean manufacturing. I included the recommendation from Luke Faulstick, then…
Public sentiment in Germany – an early supporter of a US-European Union free trade agreement – is rapidly reversing, visiting Bundestag member Peer Steinbrück – a Social Democrat – suggested yesterday (World Trade Daily, 9/15/14). Mr. Steinbrück is a former minister of finance in Germany – and a strong supporter of the TransAtlantic Trade…
Elizabeth Grossman | September 24, 2014 | Mother Jones On May 6, 2014, as I read through the morning’s incoming email, a Food Safety Alert from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing a “voluntary recall of mangos due to possible health risk” from the bacteria Listeria caught my eye. This grabbed my attention…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are supporting efforts that they say will ensure that U.S. steel producers in Mississippi and other states are protected from imported steel reinforcing bar, or “rebar.” Cochran and Wicker are encouraging Meredith Broadbent, chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), to…
Here is a video of Rep. Sander Levin, Ranking Member, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives (D-MI) in conversation with Ellen L. Frost, Adjunct Senior Fellow, East West Center; Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University. Please find here a report which contains the written remarks that were distributed regarding transpacific partnership and fast track…
HONG KONG — Chinese regulatory agencies announced fines totaling $46 million against Volkswagen and Chrysler on Thursday after finding them guilty of violating antitrust laws, while the government rejected accusations that multinationals were being singled out for unfair scrutiny. [Reposted from the NY Times. By Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley, Sept. 11, 2014] The penalties…