WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for unanimously passing legislation (H.R. 7108) that would repeal permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status for Russia. The House action comes despite the Biden administration urged House lawmakers to abandon their efforts to strip Russia of PNTR earlier this month.…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded a bipartisan letter led by U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) and Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging her to accept the anti-circumvention petition filed by Auxin Solar, Inc., a U.S. headquartered company that manufactures solely in America, requesting that the…
CPA FACT SHEET: Forced Labor in China An analysis of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act The problem. Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China have been forced into a vast network of “re-education camps” in the far west region of Xinjiang. The U.S. State Department has assessed this as “genocide.”…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded a proposal by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, that would eliminate tax breaks for Russian oligarchs and bar companies from claiming foreign tax credits for levies paid to Russia and Belarus. Last month, CPA called for trade and financial…
CPA submitted the following public comment to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in response to the Notice Seeking Public Comments on Methods To Prevent the Importation of Goods Mined, Produced, or Manufactured With Forced Labor in the People’s Republic of China, Especially in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Into the United States (Docket No.…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded a bipartisan letter led by Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo urging her to accept the anti-circumvention petition filed by Auxin Solar, Inc., a U.S. headquartered company that manufactures solely in America, requesting that the U.S. Department…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the Biden administration’s announcement on a final rule to strengthen domestic content in government procurement of American-made goods, including much-needed updates to strengthen Buy America rules. The new rule, pursuant to the Biden administration’s Executive Order 14005, increases the content threshold for products to…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauded the White House’s announcement that it is creating a Made in America Council, a new interagency effort to help coordinate and advance the Made in America Office’s work across the entirety of the Federal Government. The Council will seek to advance the administration’s Made in…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today condemned the removal of a provision, in the Russia sanctions bill, that would repeal permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status for Russia. Earlier this week, the House of Representatives planned to move forward with bipartisan legislation that would ban imports of Russian energy, revoke Russia’s…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced that the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) rose to 80.45 in January, up 0.81% from the previous month, reflecting a rise in high-wage jobs that exceeded the rise in low-wage jobs in the month. While the strongest increase in jobs was the…