The report finds that China has consolidated global dominance in the midstream stages of battery supply chains—refining and chemical conversion—giving the Chinese Communist Party significant influence over pricing, supply availability, and industrial investment.
It’s the second month in a row now that the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging has taken up the question of our woeful generics supply chain. This time, however, Ranking Member Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), started the hearing off by touching on a key topic in pharmaceuticals: the cost equation can no longer override the quality equation.
The free trade, foreign policy apparatus on Capitol Hill is openly advocating for the extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), with senior committee leaders from both parties coming out in favor of it during a March 3 Center for Strategic and International Studies event about the trade deal’s future.
CPA urges the administration to move swiftly to deploy Section 232 investigations through the U.S. Department of Commerce as the most durable and effective tool available to restore American industrial capacity.
CPA strongly supports Senator Cassidy and Whitehouse’s Last Sale Valuation Act because it closes a long-standing loophole that has allowed multinational importers to artificially understate the value of goods entering the United States.
This Interim Agreement framework reflects a long overdue acknowledgment that essential medicine supply chains cannot be left to foreign dominance, particularly by India or an adversary like China.
Zydus Pharmaceuticals, one of India’s largest generic drug makers, recalled over 22,000 bottles of a cholesterol medication on Dec. 30, 2025. AvKare, a Tennessee-based pharmaceuticals distribution company that relies on imports, recalled around 7,900 cartons of Rosuvastatin, a widely used generic statin, a day later.
As highlighted in the Oval Office at the White House this week, Clarios played a part in the launch of ‘Project Vault,’ a major initiative to strengthen U.S. critical minerals security and safeguard American battery supply chains from global disruptions.
Clothes are labeled. Most food is labeled. Even your car has its manufacturing country of origin stamped onto the door panel. Pharmaceuticals on the other hand, one of the biggest import items and certainly one most critical to our daily health safety and security, usually do not come with any labels at all.
Few economic policies generate as much conversation as tariffs. Supporters see them as a way to rebuild domestic industry and rebalance supply chains. Critics argue they are little more than a tax on American consumers. For years, economists have tried to settle the question of who actually pays – and they have not all come to the same conclusion.
