Editors note: Zach Mottl is a member of the CPA board. Over the past two decades, Illinois has lost roughly 280,000 manufacturing jobs. And as those good-paying jobs have departed, so too have many longtime residents. Illinois has now lost population for five consecutive years, with 45,000 residents leaving in the last year alone. [Zach…
General Motors had a very good year in 2018. Op-ed by Jeff Ferry, Chief Economist of CPA, originally appeared in the Daily Mail West Virginia on Juanuary 4, 2019 You read that right, a good year. Maybe even an excellent year. The company’s third-quarter earnings knocked it out of the park. Wall Street was expecting…
Editor’s note: This article is posted because the UK’s trade deficit in goods was one reason voters approved Brexit last year. It parallels the trade deficit harm caused in the US. Excerpt: “One priority is a sustained effort to promote manufacturing, which provides well-paid jobs and is especially important in the Midlands, the north of England and Northern Ireland.…
In response to years of China’s predatory economic behavior, President Donald Trump’s administration recently imposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of high-tech Chinese goods. Beijing has now retaliated against America’s agricultural sector, prompting a $12 billion program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for affected farmers and ranchers. Some in Washington are criticizing the USDA…
by Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA I was asked, after the US Trade Representative announced tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, whether I would admit that we are now in a trade war. Members of the CPA board asked me to share my response more widely. Here it is. —- Dear Bob: China…
Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) urged the International Trade Administration (ITA) to find that China is not a market economy for purposes of applying US trade laws in countervailing duty and antidumping investigations. The ITA initiated the inquiry as part of an investigation relating to aluminum foil imports from China. The…
Washington~ The Trump administration announced Monday evening that it will impose countervailing duties up to 24% on imported lumber subsidized by the Canadian government. The Commerce Department announced its Preliminary Determination of Countervailable Subsidies on April 24, 2017 after a long running investigation. CPA strongly supports the Trump Administration’s move to eliminate the unearned advantage given…
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director Sometimes the victories come so thick and fast, you have to sit down, take a deep breath, and count them. And sometimes your victories come wrapped in so many layers of pious self-justifying twaddle that you don’t even recognize them. In the past few weeks, those of us who…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145 ext 2, [email protected] Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) sent a strong message to key House members yesterday asking them to include Buy America provisions in a pending water infrastructure bill. The Senate version of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) includes a…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 25, 2016 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145, [email protected] by Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) released a report today that trumpets embarrassingly small gains from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. The PIIE and media headline writers wrongly focus upon one number – $141B…
