Ambassador Bob Lighthizer, the former U.S. Trade Representative in the Trump administration, joined Laura Ingraham on Fox News Channel to discuss trade, the TPP, and how the Republican Party must embrace a pro-worker trade agenda. Watch the full interview below. LAURA INGRAHAM: Now looking forward to 2024, we see the globalists scrambling to…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded a letter from U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging the Biden administration to reject industry attempts to relax Made in America rules for electric vehicle tax credits. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’s (IRA) ‘s tax credits for Clean…
Ruling Would Cost U.S. Manufacturers Billions WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged the Biden administration to reject the decision from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Panel that seeks to weaken USMCA’s automotive rules of origin. The regional content rules were a major change from NAFTA intended to boost domestic manufacturing in…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today joined the Office of the United States Trade Representative in criticizing the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) flawed ruling regarding challenges to the United States’ Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum brought by China and others. For the better part of a century, the U.S.…
Biden Administration Should Rescind its Solar Emergency Declaration WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a statement after the Department of Commerce issued a preliminary determination that determined that Chinese companies operating in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia are illegally circumventing existing antidumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) duty orders on solar cells…
Mexican import surge is a clear violation of 2019 agreement WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged the Biden administration to resume the 25 percent tariff for steel conduit from Mexico in response to the surge of steel conduit imports. This surge is a violation of Mexico’s commitments in the May…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) urged the Biden administration to enforce America’s anti-dumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) laws against predatory import practices in the quartz countertop industry. The U.S. market for quartz countertops is the largest in the world. However, unfair trade practices, especially from Asia, are rampant in this sector…
“U.S. investors are inadvertently subsidizing Chinese companies involved in activities that are contrary to the national security, economic security, and foreign policy interests of the United States. We are also subsidizing the economic growth of the United States’ top global adversary.” — CPA Chief Economist Jeff Ferry WASHINGTON — Jeff Ferry, Chief Economist for the…
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, November 9 at 6:30 pm CT, the Coalition for a Prosperous America’s (CPA) Chief Economist Jeff Ferry will participate in a debate hosted by the University of Wisconsin’s Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) titled, “Should American Economic Policy Embrace Free Trade?: A Debate.” According to ISI, the debate will focus on the…
The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) rose by a slight 0.03% 81.03 in September as both low-quality and high-quality jobs rose.
