CPA Statement Supporting Biden’s Update to Executive Order on Chinese Companies Present in U.S. Capital Markets

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released the following statement supporting the Biden administration’s changes to former President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13959 that prohibited U.S. investments in Chinese firms listed on the U.S. Department of Defense list of companies supporting China’s military. The Biden administration’s changes to the Trump-era policy…

CPA 2020 Reshoring Index Improved Slightly while Manufacturing Trade Deficit Surged to Historic High

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new study of the CPA Reshoring Index (CRI) showing domestic manufacturers’ market share in the domestic U.S. manufactured goods market. The CRI rose slightly from 69.4 in 2019 to 69.6 in 2020, indicating domestic producers met only 69.6% of total U.S. demand for…

CPA Urges Congress to Reject Amazon Lobbying, Keep Online Country-of-Origin Labeling in Endless Frontier Act

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged Congress to reject the lobbying efforts of large online retailers and importers like Amazon to remove U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act from the Endless Frontier Act (S. 1260). The bipartisan COOL Online Act passed the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and…

CPA Urges Chairman Wyden to Address Flawed Trade Preferences Programs that Drive Out Domestic Production

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) sent a letter to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, outlining seven serious concerns with his recently introduced Trade Preferences and American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2021. The legislation would update and renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and…

CPA’s Dan DiMicco and Jeff Ferry Launch New CPA Report Showing Black & Hispanic Job Quality Well Below National Average

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today released a new economic report that documents for the first time the severe disparity in historical job quality for Black and Hispanic workers compared to the national average for all U.S. workers. The report, “Quantifying Job Quality for U.S., Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Workers,”…

CPA Praises Senate Committee Passage of Online Country-of-Origin-Labeling

WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for passing with overwhelming bipartisan support Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) COOL Online Act, which was added as an amendment to the Endless Frontier Act (S. 1260). The bipartisan COOL Online Act would mandate that country-of-origin…