CPA Celebrates Member PAI Pharma’s Acquisition of Nivagen Pharmaceuticals
CPA this week applauded the acquisition of Nivagen Pharmaceuticals by member company, PAI Pharma (PAI), of Greenville, SC and Sacramento, CA.
CPA Warns Congress Against Extending Failed AGOA Program Ahead of House Vote
AGOA, first enacted in 2000, provides qualifying sub-Saharan African nations with tariff-free access to the U.S. market for thousands of products and was intended to support economic development, democratic reform, and stronger geopolitical ties to the United States.
CPA Applauds U.S. Senate’s Final Passage of the ‘National Defense Authorization Act for FY2026’
CPA welcomed final passage this week of the ‘National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY2026,’ (S.1071), which has been sent to President Trump’s desk for signature. The legislation advances critical national security priorities, strengthens U.S. defense readiness, raises troop pay by 3.8%, and reinforces the importance of resilient domestic supply chains and robust U.S. manufacturing capacity.
Trans-Alaskan Pipeline To Be Made-in-Korea Steel — CPA Raises Concern and Alarm
A proposed 807-mile natural gas pipeline intended to bring gas from Alaska’s North Slope to a new export terminal in the Kenai Peninsula in Southcentral Alaska will be fabricated in Korea despite the Administration’s headline “fifty percent” steel tariff.
CPA Calls on Trump Administration to Prioritize Metal Fabricators in Ongoing Trade Actions
To trade away aluminum and steel workers’ home market in exchange for padding Big Tech’s bottom line overseas is immoral and wrong. The Section 232 actions on aluminum and steel should be singularly focused on rebuilding domestic output across the supply chains, not used as leverage to help Google and Meta become even more profitable.
CPA Applauds Chairman Moolenaar for Advancing America First Investment Policy to Protect U.S. Capital and National Security
The America First Investment Policy rightly seeks to ensure that Wall Street can no longer channel hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars into companies that build China’s military, commit human rights atrocities, and threaten our national security. CPA strongly supports Chairman Moolenaar’s effort to codify this policy into law.
CPA Calls for Replacing USMCA with Two Bilateral Agreements to Restore U.S. Trade Sovereignty
CPA’s submission, “Ensuring U.S. Sovereignty in North American Trade,” concludes that the current trilateral USMCA framework binds two vastly different economies to one unenforceable system—with each reliant on the far larger U.S. consumer market.
CPA Releases New Economics Report: “Section 232 Steel Tariffs Are Necessary For National Security”
The report, titled “Section 232 Steel Tariffs are Necessary for National Security,” highlights how the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs have revitalized American manufacturing, created jobs, and strengthened national security.
With China Agreement Complete, CPA Urges Trump Administration to Prioritize 232 Investigations and Domestic Producers
President Trump has already made the most important deal of his life—his promise to the American people to end U.S. dependence on China and rebuild our domestic industrial capacity.
CPA Releases New Economics Report on America’s Chip-for-Chip Tariff Policy
The report, titled “America’s Chip-for-Chip Tariff Policy: The Urgent Fight to Reclaim Industrial Independence Before It’s Too Late,” finds that the United States now produces only 10 percent of the world’s chips—and almost none of the most advanced ones—while China has captured the majority of global capacity for legacy chips, the mature semiconductors essential to cars, medical devices, and industrial equipment.
