A Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing held last week had only one manufacturer serving as a witness. He liked the tariffs because they stopped the bloodletting of cheaper imitations from China. However, he told the Senate that changes could be made to existing tariff policy to help lower costs as commodity and other input prices are rising fast.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce usually takes a white-glove approach to criticising their members’ businesses in China. But in a recent study, conducted for the Chamber by the Rhodium Group, there is a marked change of tune.
A House Natural Resources subcommittee heard from witnesses last week calling for special tax breaks and for Congress to consider restrictions on copper scraps exports.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its monthly trade data for March, and despite it being the first full month of the imbroglio in the Strait of Hormuz, imports rose more than exports and the deficit surpassed the three month moving average.
How did China become a near peer competitor with the U.S. on everything from computers to AI platforms to space? Theft and IP violations.
Leadership of the House Select Committee on the CCP is convinced China is stealing American AI models. That’s why China has an OpenAI rival, called DeepSeek, and the Europeans have nothing.
The war in Iran is solar power’s Covid moment.
China holds a rapidly expanding position in the global biologics and biosimilars market, driven by heavy government support, regulatory reforms, and massive investments in biotech hubs like Shanghai and Suzhou.
If there is one Washington, D.C.-based organization that is outspoken against the positions of CPA, it’s the Tax Foundation. They have been instrumental in getting many legislators to believe tariffs would be a “tax” upwards of $1,000 per household.
Project Vault was developed to lend money to miners and entice investment in metals processing in order to build a strategic reserve of critical minerals to protect industry from supply shocks and price volatility.
