CPA Applauds Hanwha Q CELLS $2.5 Billion Domestic Solar Manufacturing Expansion

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded an announcement by Hanwha Q CELLS, a global leader in complete clean energy solutions, that it will invest more than $2.5 billion—the largest solar investment ever in the U.S.—to build a complete solar supply chain in the United States. The company’s commitment to the…

CPA Applauds Creation of House Select Committee on China

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted in an overwhelming bipartisan fashion—365 to 65—to form the House Select Committee on China. The new committee will be chaired by Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI). In December, Chairman Gallagher outlined his vision for the committee’s…

Job Quality Index Rises as High-Quality Employment Grows

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced that the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) rose 1.03% to 81.34 in November as employment in high-quality sectors including transportation equipment manufacturing and health care rose. Low quality jobs, i.e. jobs that pay weekly wages below the national average for all production and nonsupervisory (P&NS)…

Ambassador Bob Lighthizer Tells Laura Ingraham Why the GOP Must Embrace Tariffs and Balanced Trade

Ambassador Bob Lighthizer, the former U.S. Trade Representative in the Trump administration, joined Laura Ingraham on Fox News Channel to discuss trade, the TPP, and how the Republican Party must embrace a pro-worker trade agenda. Watch the full interview below.     LAURA INGRAHAM: Now looking forward to 2024, we see the globalists scrambling to…

CPA Stands with Sen. Manchin, Urges Biden Administration to Reject Industry Efforts to Weaken Made in America Electric Vehicle Tax Credits in Inflation Reduction Act

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded a letter from U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging the Biden administration to reject industry attempts to relax Made in America rules for electric vehicle tax credits. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’s (IRA) ‘s tax credits for Clean…

Biden Administration Must Reject USMCA Tribunal Decision on Auto Rules

Ruling Would Cost U.S. Manufacturers Billions WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged the Biden administration to reject the decision  from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Panel that seeks to weaken USMCA’s automotive rules of origin. The  regional content rules were a major change from NAFTA intended to boost domestic manufacturing in…

CPA Statement on Flawed WTO Decision on Steel and Aluminum

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today joined the Office of the United States Trade Representative in criticizing the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) flawed ruling regarding challenges to the United States’ Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum brought by China and others. For the better part of a century, the U.S.…

CPA Urges Biden Administration to Resume 25% Tariffs on Mexican Steel Conduits

Mexican import surge is a clear violation of 2019 agreement WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged the Biden administration to resume the 25 percent tariff for steel conduit from Mexico in response to the surge of steel conduit imports. This surge is a violation of Mexico’s commitments in the May…