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…
On April 23, 2021, the Coalition for a Prosperous America responded to the request for comments by the staff of the Senate Finance Committee regarding a tax framework proposal made by Senator Wyden, Senator Brown, and Senator Warner. April 23, 2021 The Honorable Ron Wyden Chairman United States Senate Committee on Finance 219 Dirksen Senate…
CPA sent the following the letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai urging that the emphasis on the transition to and growth of domestic “green” industrial production is the same as the intensity and dedication given to achieving climate goals. Dear Ambassador Tai: We appreciate your recent remarks at an event titled “Greening U.S. Trade…
On March 25, 2021, David Morse, CPA’s Tax Policy Director submitted a written testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance. As the Senate Committee on Finance conducts a review of U.S. international tax policy about American employment and investment, the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) offered its views as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing…
