Southeast Asia Now A Trio Of Mini-Chinas Producing Solar for US Market
Three Southeast Asian nations have become China’s “Mini Me” when it comes to the solar supply chain.
Consumer Safety Official: De Minimis is ‘Overwhelming’
The roughly 485 million packages that come into the U.S. duty free via the de minimis loophole is “overwhelming” and that volume “makes it harder for us to police products for consumer safety,” James Joholske, director of the office of import surveillance at the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC) told the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission on March 1
On the “Zero Predictive Accuracy” of Most Economic Models…
CPA Trade Counsel Charles Benoit and Chief Economist Jeff Ferry told Monday’s Prosperity Summit attendees that most economic models are worse at predicting trade outcomes than the local weatherman is at forecasting precipitation levels 10 days out.
Prosperity Summit Wrap: Industry Leaders Share Concerns With Congressional Staffers
Roughly 40 congressional staff members had a chance to meet with and hear from industry leaders as diverse as Florida farmers to multinational corporations in the renewable energy space about the trials and tribulations of competing with emerging markets that play by different rules. And often break existing ones.
On US Steel, Secretary Ross Is Wrong. Ambassador Lighthizer Is Right.
The proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel has understandably generated controversy and concern. At a gut-level, it feels wrong to many Americans.
CPA Applauds Senator Hawley’s Tariff Bill for Chinese Cars
China’s predatory auto industry is a direct threat to American auto manufacturers and the hundreds of thousands of hard-working men and women that rely on this critical industry.
The De Minimis Loophole Provides High Volume Immunity to Overseas Smugglers
Modern-day smugglers are using the de minimis loophole to bring in illicit imports of fentanyl, pill presses, and all manner of contraband.
New Manufacturing Increasingly Going to Lower Income Towns. This is a Good Thing.
The U.S. manufacturing boom, which started slowly since the implementation of tariffs on steel, aluminum, some China imports, and sped along by new laws favoring domestic supply chains, has had a positive impact on lower income counties nationwide.
CPA Statement on Closure of Cleveland-Cliffs Tin Mill Facility
The decision, which will result in nearly 1,000 employee layoffs in April, is a direct result of the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) determination that illegally dumped and subsidized imports of tin mill products from China, Canada and Germany do not sufficiently harm the U.S. domestic steel industry.
New Horizon Advisory Report Details Alarming Threat of China’s Stranglehold on Global Solar Market
An alarming new report from Horizon Advisory details China’s distortion of the global solar industry and how that threatens the national and economic security of the United States as it “risks making the United States dependent, and dependent on an adversary, for a strategic, future energy source.”
