CPA Issues Statement of Support for New Labor Tariff Action
New duties on imports from dozens of countries take effect this week, closing the gap left after the Supreme Court struck down the President’s earlier tariff authority.
Trump Tells War Department to Gain Better Visibility of Critical Minerals Used by Defense Contractors
Companies making goods from the Department of War (DoW) will now need much clearer visibility into their supply chains, especially if a product they make or buy includes critical minerals.
The Trade Bargain Behind America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis
Trade structured to support production raises productivity, and rising productivity raises the incomes that fund consumption durably, out of earnings instead of borrowing. That is the only durable answer to the cost-of-living crisis: paychecks that can carry the price of housing, healthcare, and childcare.
CPA Welcomes FDA Proposal to Expose Hidden Foreign Suppliers in America’s Drug Supply Chain
For years, the most critical link in our drug supply chain — the upstream chemistry — has been invisible to our own regulators. A medicine finished in Europe is not necessarily a European medicine, and this rule finally begins to expose that fiction.
CPA and Aluminum Extruders Council Urge Treasury to Close Solar “Domestic Content” Loophole
A new joint white paper finds that aluminum extrusion — the most capital-intensive step in frame production — must occur in the United States for solar module frames to qualify for the Section 45Y/48E domestic content bonus credit.
Cancelling Hard-Won Fertilizer Trade Remedies, the Administration Tells Domestic Producers: Don’t Count On Your Home Market
Last week, the White House declared an emergency under Section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and suspended, for eight months, the collection of anti-dumping and countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer from the Kingdom of Morocco.
May Trade Deficit of $106.4 Billion is Not as Bad as it Looks
The goods deficit for May is the worst looking deficit on paper, at $106.4 billion, but might not be as bad as that number suggests.
Minimum Import Price: The Good American Tradition Versus the Failed Globalist Design
Before USTR borrows the tin cartel’s playbook, it should look to the American tradition of minimum import pricing — and beware the foreign imitations that ended in ruin.
CPA Hails Chinese Solar Retreat Driven by FEOC Restrictions It Long Championed
Years ago, CPA warned that China was using American clean-energy tax credits to capture our solar industry — and we led the fight to slam that door shut.
Sen. Gillibrand Raises Concerns About China’s Ability To Attract U.S. Biotech Investment, Partners
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has become one of the Democratic Party’s leading voices raising concerns about the pharmaceutical industry’s growing ties to China.
