WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today welcomed new guidance from the Biden administration on how federal agencies should implement Executive Order (EO) 14005, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers. The EO seeks to maximize the use of goods, products, and materials produced in,…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today welcomed key findings from the 100-day review mandated by the Biden-Harris administration’s Executive Order 14017 on “America’s Supply Chains.” Signed in February, CPA supported the Executive Order and called on the administration to “quickly pivot from assessment to action.” Importantly, the review makes clear that…
Calls for Removing Toomey Amendment that Undercuts Buy America Efforts WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the Senate passage of the Make PPE in America Act (S. 1306), bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI) that will strengthen efforts to onshore production of personal…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the Senate passage of Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act, which would mandate that country-of-origin labeling (COOL) be clearly and conspicuously stated in any website description of a product. This would protect Americans’ right to know where the products they buy are made…
James Stuber \ June 6, 2021 \ The Gazette One significant result of the COVID-19 pandemic is that U.S. consumers have become more interested in buying American-made products. Recent polling shows that 40% of consumers will no longer buy anything made in China. This is good news for America’s manufacturers because the poll also found…
Greg Owens \ June 7, 2021 \ Industry Week The COOL bill would mandate prominent disclosure of where a product is produced, for all online retailers. Amazon has been in the news of late due to concerns over its workplace conditions. But Americans now have another reason to be apprehensive about Amazon and other e-commerce…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released a statement after the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the G7 economies announced that they support the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) efforts “to address the tax challenges arising from globalisation and the digitalisation of the economy and to adopt a…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced that the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) fell slightly in May to 81.49, as more service sector workers earning less than the average weekly wage returned to work. The JQI is the ratio of high-quality jobs to low-quality jobs, based on whether…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released the following statement supporting the Biden administration’s changes to former President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13959 that prohibited U.S. investments in Chinese firms listed on the U.S. Department of Defense list of companies supporting China’s military. The Biden administration’s changes to the Trump-era policy…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new study of the CPA Reshoring Index (CRI) showing domestic manufacturers’ market share in the domestic U.S. manufactured goods market. The CRI rose slightly from 69.4 in 2019 to 69.6 in 2020, indicating domestic producers met only 69.6% of total U.S. demand for…
