CPA sent the following letter to President Joe Biden urging him to use every trade, tax, and support policy at your disposal to ensure that U.S. solar manufacturers and workers continue investing in domestic solar supply chain capacity to achieve your emission reduction goals. Dear President Biden, The U.S. domestic solar energy industry is continuing…
CPA sent the following coalition letter to Members of the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services regarding protecting against Chinese Military Companies (CMC’s) and Chinese Communist Party exploitation of American investors. Co-signers of the letter included: Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.; Global Solidarity with Hong Kong – Chicago; Northern California Hong Kong Club;…
CPA sent the following letter to President Joe Biden urging the Administration to take preemptive action to prevent China and Russia from exploiting Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to undermine vital U.S. economic and national security interests. Dear Mr. President, We write to you today to request that you take preemptive action to ensure that China and Russia…
CPA submitted the following written testimony to the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Trade regarding the hearing titled, “The Global Challenge of Forced Labor in Supply Chains: Strengthening Enforcement and Protecting Workers.” THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF FORCED LABOR IN SUPPLY CHAINS: STRENGTHENING ENFORCEMENT AND PROTECTING WORKERS Before the House Committee on Ways…
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 sent the following the letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai urging that the Biden-Harris administration end Hong Kong’s status in the WTO GPA in light of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) takeover of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the end of the “One Country, Two Systems” arrangement. Dear Ambassador Tai: We write…
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 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…
Jeremy Streatfeild, Director, Office of African Affairs Office of the United States Trade Representative Edward Gresser, Chair of the Trade Policy Staff Committee, Office of the United States Trade Representative June 23, 2021 Re: Annual Review of Country Eligibility for Benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, Docket USTR-2021-0009 Dear Messrs. Streatfeild and Gresser,…
CPA sent the following letter to U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) regarding his letter, signed by House Ways and Means Committee Republicans, urging U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai to resume U.S. negotiations to complete an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA). The EGA strategy would harm U.S. manufacturing and pursuing tariff reduction historically ends in the loss…
