CPA’s chief economist Jeff Ferry joined two other panelists Wednesday to talk trade in an hour-long webinar by Industry Week magazine titled the “2024 Manufacturing Economy First Half Checkup.”
John Deere will lay off or offer early retirement to over 200 workers in Iowa, while at the same time the tractor producer is gearing up to move production of mid-frame skid steer loaders and compact loaders from its plant in Dubuque, Iowa to a proposed new facility in Mexico.
The steaks and hamburgers you put onto your grill this summer are less American than one might think. In fact, the U.S. imports almost as much beef as it exports as global meatpackers continue to turn to imported beef, based on USDA data year-to-date.
Last week, Republicans and Democrats from the Senate’s Joint Economic Committee squared off against each other – with one side arguing in favor of industrial policy programs like the Inflation Reduction Act – and the other side arguing in favor of lower corporate taxes.
The foreign labs in China and India that make the branded drugs for CVS pharmacies nationwide are coming under increased scrutiny for unsafe manufacturing practices.
Will the Pentagon spend $104 million on solar made by a Chinese company? It might be.
The free trade consensus of economists, politicians, and financial pundits operating in polite society is fracturing.
After a generation of making cars with Western automakers, China has evolved into an electric vehicle (EV) force to be reckoned with.
The renewal of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is stuck in limbo in the Senate Finance Committee for now as leading Democrats don’t want to pass it without Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).
China’s EV battery companies CATL and Gotion High Tech source materials from companies banned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) due to forced labor violations, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said on June 6.
