Editor’s note: CPA supported the bill to strengthen controls on incoming foreign investment. The rules are now being written for implementation. The Treasury-led interagency committee will now require foreign investors to alert it to all deals giving them access to critical technology across 27 industries—including semiconductors, telecommunications and defense—that the committee believes could threaten U.S.…
Editors note: Evasion of tariffs through misidentifying tariff codes is not new, but this article is very helpful to focus on the problem. One day in June, seven months after the U.S. imposed stiff tariffs on plywood from China, a wood importer in Oregon got a call from a supplier asking if he would like to…
Trump administration details blueprint to rebuild key manufacturing sectors Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today said the Trump administration’s new report on vulnerabilities in the US defense industrial base is welcome and critical to national and economic security. The new report offers a comprehensive assessment of the state of defense manufacturing in the United…
New trade data from the Department of Commerce shows that America’s trade deficit continues to rise, with the August seasonally-adjusted deficit of $53.2 billion rising 6 percent above the July figure and a staggering 20 percent worse than the August 2017 figure of $44.2 billion. On a year-to-date basis, the trade deficit is running at $391 billion,…
Editors note: this is an important report that we have been waiting for. It will be the start of moving our defense industrial supply chain away from reliance on strategic competitors like China. Beijing’s “trade dominance” and willingness to use trade as a “weapon of soft power” is putting the U.S. manufacturing and defense industrial…
See the video here. Thank you, Ken, for that kind introduction. To the Members of the Board of Trustees, to Dr. Michael Pillsbury, to our distinguished guests, and to all of you who, true to your mission, “think about the future in unconventional ways” – it’s an honor to be back at the Hudson Institute.…
Editor’s note: This article shows breathtaking infiltration by “strategic competitor” China. It is Soviet style espionage and justifies further aggressive steps to decouple our trade relationship. WASHINGTON—White House officials are betting that concluding a trade deal with Mexico and Canada will give them more ammunition in their high-stakes battle with China on economic issues and national security.…
Editors note. This report will be very big when it comes out. The trade conflict with China Will continue for a long time. A U.S. Defense Department-led review ordered by President Donald Trump concludes that the Chinese government is deliberately leveraging its monopoly on certain key natural resources to undermine the U.S. defense industrial base,…
Free traders predicted economic armageddon from new tariffs on steel, aluminum and Chinese products. But, with the significant exception of agriculture, CPA members’ businesses are booming. They are raising wages, investing in new equipment, reopening production lines and seeing production move back from China. The unemployment rate has dipped to 3.9 percent. US manufacturing employment…
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director The three magic numbers for understanding the new US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA) negotiated by the Trump administration are 16, 16, and 6. Those numbers provide insight into a trade agreement that is conceptually revolutionary in the context of previous US trade agreements. Donald Trump was elected president by voters…
