WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the Biden administration for proposing a new rule pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 14005, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers, which President Joe Biden signed in January. The proposed rule aims to increase American-made content in…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released today a new economic model of a potential U.S.-U.K. trade agreement that finds such an agreement would increase unemployment by more than 2,000 workers and reduce U.S. gross domestic product by $142 million a year. The innovative CPA model, based on the standard GTAP trade…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler to implement the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (P.L 116-222) without delay after reports that the Commission has not acted sufficiently to implement the law. The bipartisan legislation passed Congress unanimously and was enacted into…
CPA sent the following letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler urging the Commission to swiftly implement the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (P.L 116-222), bipartisan legislation that will ensure that Chinese and other foreign companies traded on U.S. exchanges are subject to the same independent audit requirements that apply to…
CPA sent the following the letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai urging that the Biden-Harris administration end Hong Kong’s status in the WTO GPA in light of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) takeover of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the end of the “One Country, Two Systems” arrangement. Dear Ambassador Tai: We write…
By Charles Benoit, CPA Trade Counsel There is high drama in Congress this summer as the U.S. House and Senate offer differing takes on the direction of U.S. trade policy. The Senate’s bill would disarm America’s trade defenses and ensure a relentless flood of imports from China if passed. Fortunately, the House Ways and Means…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today, in two separate letters, urged President Joe Biden to place capital markets sanctions on additional Chinese companies present in U.S. capital markets. In the first letter, CPA requested the Biden administration update their list of sanctioned Chinese companies to include companies that were originally on…
CPA sent the following letter to President Joe Biden requesting that the administration update Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List with the five Chinese companies that were added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List on June 24, 2021 because they use forced labor. Three of these Chinese…
CPA sent the following letter to President Joe Biden requesting that the administration add Chinese companies on the Department of Defense’s Chinese Military Companies List to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List. Executive Order 14032 established the NS-CMIC List as part of the…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced that the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) rose slightly to 81.68 in May, up 0.39% from the previous month, as high-quality jobs increased in sectors including health care and automotive dealerships in May. The JQI increased only slightly because those high-quality jobs…