Editor’s note: Pay special attention to DNI Director Dan Coats’ statement and consider whether our issues with China are confined to trade. [Mark Kelton | February 5, 2019 | The Cipher Brief ] Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats briefed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week about the comprehensive threat that China poses…
Editor’s note: And then they cried “wolf” again. This UN report lacks any credibility, ignores trade cheating and ignores global trade imbalances. If a global economic downturn was going to happen with China tariffs, it would have happened. The US and the world will be better off if we fix China’s economic predation and especially…
Joel Ross is the CEO of Universal Electric in Pittsburgh, PA. Joel joined CPA to stop the unfair policies Washington has negotiated regarding “Free” trade.
By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board Would the MAC discourage foreign direct investment in the United States? Some readers have suggested that capital being brought into the United States to finance greenfield foreign direct investment should be exempted from the MAC. We should not, they argue, do anything to discourage productivity enhancing investment in America’s manufacturing…
By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board This note describes how a Market Access Charge (MAC) can fix US dollar overvaluation, what the MAC is, and how it would put US workers and factories back on the job. Many factors have contributed to America’s declining international competitiveness, but most important has been misaligned exchange rates that are…
Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) urged the International Trade Administration (ITA) to find that China is not a market economy for purposes of applying US trade laws in countervailing duty and antidumping investigations. The ITA initiated the inquiry as part of an investigation relating to aluminum foil imports from China. The…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, seems reluctant to take a firm position on an issue dividing her party: whether President Obama should have fast-track trading authority for the immense trade deal he has been negotiating, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. With some progressive voters eyeing her with some…
