Washington. As the Trump administration embarks on a 13th round of trade talks with China, the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) is urging US trade negotiators to take a hard line with Beijing. CPA believes there are important reasons why the US should hold firm unless Beijing makes substantial concessions. [1] China’s intellectual property theft and…

Editors note: This is a very big step to add Chinese entities to the Department of Commerce’s Entity List. It is the first time any government has challenged China’s human rights abuses this way. WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The U.S. government widened its trade blacklist to include some of China’s top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing…

Editors note: This excerpt from Secretary Ross’ oped is very good, signaling a sea change in how trade is thought about. “Thanks to President Donald J. Trump, the United States is no longer subsidizing the growth of other countries at the expense of American jobs and American wages. In the post-World War II world, the…

Excerpt: “This is comically bad staff work [by the governor’s staff]: there are no tariffs on inbound recycled scrap and there is an abundance of cheap scrap on domestic soil,” said Peter Navarro WASHINGTON — The White House has slammed Gov. John Bel Edwards over the governor’s remarks about the recent closure of a LaPlace steel mill. [Elizabeth Crisp…

Overall trade deficit on track to exceed 2018 total, but China deficit narrowing By Steven L. Byers, PhD, CPA Senior Economist The US trade deficit in goods and services increased by 1.6 percent in August, to $54.9 billion, up $0.9 billion from $54.0 billion (revised) in July. The August increase is due to a 1.1…

New agreement will eliminate postal subsidization of imports Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today praised the efforts of Peter Navarro, White House Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, for taking a tough negotiating position at last week’s Universal Postal Union (UPU) talks. The United States had threatened to withdraw…

Editors Note: David Morse is the Tax Advisor Director for the Coalition for a Prosperous America. Excerpt: A key problem for American companies is that multinational competitors typically avoid paying a hefty portion of their U.S. tax obligations. [David Morse | September 25, 2019 | Morning Consult] It’s been almost two years since the passage of…

Editor’s note: Senators Rubio and Shaheen are doing very good work making sure federal employee retirement funds are not benefitting Chinese government owned companies, including those that engage in wrongful or criminal activities.  During the Cold War, it would have been unthinkable for the U.S. government to force members of the military and federal employees…

Editors note: Fake fraudulent Chinese companies should NOT be listed on US exchanges. They don’t let us audit them. They build Chinese military and surveillance tech. They enrich the Chinese government. And China doesn’t let our companies freely list or establish themselves there.  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering delisting Chinese companies from U.S.…

Editors note: China’s subsidies continue in the form of buying equity stakes in private businesses, rather than let companies go bankrupt like they would here. Government-linked investors are knights in shining armor for cash-starved private enterprises [Shen Hong | September 30, 2019 | WSJ] However, while President Xi Jinping has centralized control more than his…