Any Senator who supports an amendment to remove or weaken the FEOC Excise Tax is directly endorsing China’s solar industry—dominated by companies using slave labor, powered by coal, and compromised by severe cybersecurity risks.
Last year, it wasn’t even in the Top 10. This year, they’re number one. General Motors was ranked as the most China-exposed U.S. multinational by Strategy Risks, a political risk consultancy in New York.
CPA strongly endorses the FEOC Excise Tax in the Senate reconciliation bill as a critical step in protecting America’s solar manufacturing industry from reliance on subsidized and compromised Chinese components.
The U.S. kitchen cabinet industry has a long and storied history, deeply rooted in small- to medium-sized businesses that form the backbone of American manufacturing.
CPA warned that the Senate version of President Trump’s reconciliation bill—known as the One Big Beautiful Bill—contains a critical loophole in both the Section 48E investment tax credit and 45Y production tax credit in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), creating an unintended but dangerous giveaway to China’s solar industry.
In the U.S. today, frontline cancer treatments are being rationed. ERs are short on sedatives. Amoxicillin—one of the most prescribed antibiotics in the country—has been in critical shortage. These are not temporary disruptions. They reflect a structural breakdown caused by the erosion of America’s pharmaceutical manufacturing base and a decades-long surge in generic drug imports.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stepped into somewhat hostile territory in the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday. But despite dramatic criticism from Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and other top Democrats on the Committee, Bessent took an early victory lap on tariffs.
U.S. based generic drug makers need government support to expand – and maybe even to survive – the onslaught of imports nearly every member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health said in a hearing on Wednesday.
The second round of the early 2000s ‘China Shock’ will impact the rest of the world more than it will the United States. Tariffs and industrial policies – like the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act – have somewhat protected the U.S. from China’s relentless exports.
At a June 4 hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee’s Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee, lawmakers and industry representatives expressed growing frustration with what they described as an overregulated domestic seafood industry that is steadily losing ground to foreign competition.
