The Defense Department sent its annual report on China’s military to Congress. It missed one key element: how China got there so fast in the first place. US capital and corporate offshoring helped fund it.
Once in charge of tech export controls to China, two government employees say the policy is not working as well as it could be. A look back at Tuesday’s China Tech Threat/CPA event on export restrictions on Capitol Hill.
Republican voters support existing tariffs, even extending some of them. Meanwhile, the White House’s worker-centered trade focus approved by big majority of GOP voters.
Yarns and fabrics from Asia are finding their way into the U.S. through a free trade deal that’s not meant for them. Kim Glas of NCTO discusses the impacts.
The deficit fell in August thanks to US crude oil exports and autoparts shipments to Mexico, for example. But overall, the goods deficit rages on and will break $1.03 trillion this year.
Rumor has it the White House is dusting off an old Trump-era idea to do a free trade deal with the UK. Ex-USTR Lighthizer says they found no benefit in one. CPA obviously agrees. Here’s why.
The USTR wants a worker-centered trade policy. The Coalition for a Prosperous America gave them some ideas.
The leaders of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee grilled a government official on the EV batteries supply chain. From copper to EV battery minerals, the U.S. is way behind.
The Senate Agriculture Committee discusses foreign ownership and corporate concentration in America’s food supply. It’s getting worse, everyone agrees. Now what?
China EV battery makers are the world’s largest. The U.S. has none. So China is getting new contracts to build EV plants, thanks to Inflation Reduction Act. Some in Washington do not want IRA benefits going to China.
