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.
CPA Praises the “Home Market Restoration Act” as a Blueprint for Tariff Reshoring
New bill protects American agricultural markets from further import displacement with inflation-indexed specific duties — assessed against volume, rather than declared value — as well as new tariff-rate quotas to stop further displacement towards imports and give farmers and ranchers certainty.
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.
CPA Releases New China Transshipment Monitor: Report Reveals $70 Billion in Uncollected Revenue
New report finds nearly one in five dollars of diverted Chinese trade is being rerouted back into the U.S. market through third countries.
Washington’s $70 Billion in Lost Protection: Liberation Day, One Year Later
One year after Liberation Day, the most aggressive tariff escalation since 2018, the United States collected just half of what its own policy prescribes.
Don’t Be Misled by the Falling Value of Chinese Imports
USTR says the U.S. goods deficit with China fell 46 percent. But the goods didn’t stop coming — importers just declared them worth less. Treating customs “value” as an appraisal hides the undervaluation now driving the numbers.
China’s Rise As No. 2 Economic Power Has Created Worldwide Industrial Subsidies Trend
Subsidies across 15 key industrial sectors have reached their highest levels relative to revenue since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, according to an OECD study published June 1.
House Agriculture Committee Supports USMCA
President Trump might be fine with upending the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ahead of the July 1 review deadline, but the House Agriculture Committee is not.
Texas is Rolling Out the Welcome Mat for China’s Copper Takeover
China is quietly making a move on one of America’s most critical industrial materials — copper. Texas is helping them do it.
Adam Smith’s Enemy Was the East India Company, Not the Tariff of 1789
This week, Scott Lincicome marked the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations by recruiting Adam Smith into the free-trade lobby’s war on American tariffs. It’s a clever conscription, but it depends on erasing the most important fact about Smith’s world: when Smith attacked “mercantilism,” he was attacking a system America’s founders also rejected — and replaced with something Smith never imagined.
