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    Torsekar: Trump's Copper Tariff is a First Step. Here's What's Needed Now to Counter China

    Torsekar: Trump’s Copper Tariff is a First Step. Here’s What’s Needed Now to Counter China

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For China, Promises Made Are Almost Always Promises Broken

Archive, China, commentary, Commentary Featured, Featured Home Page, Issues, NewsroomBy Kenneth RapozaNovember 17, 2023

Why does anyone take China’s promises seriously? Following this week’s APEC conference, the U.S. is awash in headlines about the latest agreements between Biden and Xi, most of them not even in writing.

US China Commission Report Says ‘Engagement’ Not Working Too Well

Archive, China, commentary, Commentary Featured, Featured Home Page, Issues, Newsroom, Trade and TariffsBy Kenneth RapozaNovember 16, 2023

China engagement not going too well. Supply chain risks spread to Vietnam, elsewhere, U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission says in its annual report to Congress.

Small Package Shipment Imports Don’t Work: Evidence Pours In

Archive, commentary, Commentary Featured, Customs, Featured Home Page, NewsroomBy Charles BenoitNovember 9, 2023

Evidence continues to pour in that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can’t do its job against the daily tidal wave of small packages sent

Ambassador Tai at European Commission

No, Ambassador Tai didn’t “abandon our allies”

Archive, Commentary Featured, Featured Home Page, Trade and TariffsBy Charles BenoitNovember 1, 2023

Last week, President Biden’s U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Tai, took a shellacking from U.S. Senators who oversee her office. The first was from her fellow

U.S. Textile Industry Faced With Flooded Asian Goods, Ask Senate For Help

Archive, commentary, Commentary Featured, Featured Home Page, Issues, Manufacturing, Newsroom, Trade and TariffsBy Kenneth RapozaOctober 10, 2023

Yarns and fabrics from Asia are finding their way into the U.S. through a free trade deal that’s not meant for them. Kim Glas of NCTO discusses the impacts.

DC Rumor Mill: A Possible US-UK Free Trade Deal?

Archive, commentary, Commentary Featured, Featured Home Page, Issues, Manufacturing, Newsroom, Trade and TariffsBy Kenneth RapozaOctober 4, 2023

Rumor has it the White House is dusting off an old Trump-era idea to do a free trade deal with the UK. Ex-USTR Lighthizer says they found no benefit in one. CPA obviously agrees. Here’s why.

Washington Likely Reason For Ford’s Pause On CATL EV Battery Factory

Archive, commentary, Featured Home Page, Issues, Manufacturing, Newsroom, Renewable EnergyBy Kenneth RapozaSeptember 28, 2023

China EV battery makers are the world’s largest. The U.S. has none. So China is getting new contracts to build EV plants, thanks to Inflation Reduction Act. Some in Washington do not want IRA benefits going to China.

If Companies Are Leaving China, Where Are They Going, And Why?

Archive, China, commentary, Commentary Featured, Featured Home Page, Issues, Newsroom, Supply Chain, Trade and TariffsBy Kenneth RapozaSeptember 28, 2023

Dan Harris, international lawyer at Harris Bricken and founding author of the China Law Blog talks about companies leaving China. Are any coming here?

Former Senator Phil Gramm is Wrong on U.S. Trade Policy

commentary, Guest Opinion & Press Releases, Issues, Trade and TariffsBy Guest AuthorSeptember 27, 2023

By Bill Jones Former Senator Phil Gramm’s recent WSJ opinion article “Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser” gets many things wrong about U.S. trade policy.

Plenary Meeting of the Economic Section during the African-Asian Conference in Merdeka Building, Bandung, on April 20th 1955.

Generalized System of Preferences Renewal Would Delight China

Featured Home Page, commentary, Commentary Featured, Industrial Policy, Newsroom, Trade and TariffsBy Charles BenoitSeptember 15, 2023Leave a comment

As Congress considers renewal of the program, the marketing has switched to “facilitating supply chain shifts out of China”. This is narrative creation completely untethered to reality.

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