CPA: SEC Must Implement Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act Without Delay

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler to implement the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (P.L 116-222) without delay after reports that the Commission has not acted sufficiently to implement the law. The bipartisan legislation passed Congress unanimously and was enacted into…

CPA Letter to SEC re Implementation of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act

CPA sent the following letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler urging the Commission to swiftly implement the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (P.L 116-222), bipartisan legislation that will ensure that Chinese and other foreign companies traded on U.S. exchanges are subject to the same independent audit requirements that apply to…

CPA Letter to President Biden on Strengthening Implementation of EO 14032 Via Inclusion of Commerce Department Entity List Companies

CPA sent the following letter to President Joe Biden requesting that the administration update Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List with the five Chinese companies that were added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List on June 24, 2021 because they use forced labor. Three of these Chinese…

CPA Letter to President Biden on Capital Markets Sanctions for Chinese Military Companies

CPA sent the following letter to President Joe Biden requesting that the administration add Chinese companies on the Department of Defense’s Chinese Military Companies List to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List. Executive Order 14032 established the NS-CMIC List as part of the…

Growing Evidence Shows GSP Trade Liberalization Programs Hurt, Not Help

Original by CPA Chief Economist Jeff Ferry published in Foreign Policy News Early in June, the Senate passed its signature “China bill,” a wide-ranging piece of legislation intended to counter Beijing’s industrial rise and spur U.S. technological competitiveness. Included in the bill was a reauthorization of the longstanding Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), a tariff…

Opinion\ Declining U.S. Job Quality for People of Color

By Dan DiMicco and Jeff Ferry \ June 2021 \ The Hill As former manufacturing executives, we have seen firsthand how high-quality jobs in our industry benefit Americans from all backgrounds. We also know that the quality of jobs created – not just the quantity – matters. The troubling results of our organization’s new economic study show why. In recent…

CPA on Agreement of 130 Countries to Address Tax Avoidance by World’s Largest Corporations

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a statement after 130 countries and jurisdictions, representing more than 90% of global GDP, joined a statement establishing a new framework for international tax reform. According to the announcement, the “framework updates key elements of the century-old international tax system, which is no longer…