Editor’s Note: CPA’s study on reshoring pharma could add 800,000 jobs and $200B could be added to economy was mentioned on the Lou Dobbs show on Fox Business [March 26, 2020 | Fox Business]

CPA member Rosemary Gibson testified March 12, 2020 before the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 90 percent of America’s generic drug needs are currently imported, particularly from China. This includes many well-known antibiotics and other medications used to treat coronavirus infections. However, the coronavirus outbreak has severely disrupted China’s production of drug exports for…

CPA’s year in review | 2019 

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The process of meat labeling in the United States might be in need of a serious government intervention, according to former rancher Bill Bullard.  [Tess Bonn| March 14, 2019 | The Hill] https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/434046-former-rancher-calls-for-government-intervention-on-meat-labeling Bullard said, thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), multinational meat packers, which control 85 percent of the market, are able to import cheaper beef…

Editor’s note: CPA member Greg Owens says the overvalued dollar hurts his Made in USA tableware business and makes the trade deficit worse.  [March 6, 2019 |NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/trade-deficit-hits-record-high-amid-trump-s-tariff-tit-for-tat-with-china-1453354563564

Brian Duncan, Vice President of the Illinois Farm Bureau, Zach Mottl, Chief Alignment Officer of Atlas Tool Works, and Peter Roskam, former U.S. Congressman and current IOP Pritzker Fellow, had a panel discussion on the short – and long-term dynamics of the Trump administration’s trade policies, particularly as they affect Illinois. They discussed the current…