On day two of the CPA Annual Conference, three members of Congress tout origin labeling on everything from food to leather boots. More importantly, a call to fix Buy American Act rules once and for all.
On day two of the CPA Annual Conference, Mike Dolan of the Teamsters recants the anti-globalist origin story and everybody loves it.
We all remember the famous line by Bill Clinton’s campaign advisor James Carville: “It’s the economy, stupid,” he said about what mattered most to voters. The economy still matters, of course, but one of the major fundamentals of the economy is the dollar and it’s non-competitive with the rest of the world. It’s too strong.…
Healthcare panelist and Phlow CEO Eric Edwards on what needs to be done to make more pharmaceutical drugs here. Most of them are coming in from Europe, India and…increasingly…China.
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Climate change trumps China for the new USTR. We think the two are inseparable, actually.
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) and China Tech Threat today jointly released a white paper titled “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Semiconductors and Countering China’s Threats.” The paper examines the decline in U.S. market share in global semiconductor manufacturing, the attendant risks to U.S economic and national security, and why maintaining U.S.…
Solar power is a vital source of renewable energy and an essential industry for the US today and in the future. This White Paper looks at the success of the US solar module industry in investment, production growth, and record market share. Nevertheless, China still retains a chokehold on the industry through its dominance in…
The Job Quality Index (JQI) rose 0.67% to 81.58 in the March reading as the decline in low-quality jobs prompted a small increase in the JQI. The JQI report showed that the mean weekly wage for all P&NS workers increased to $862.28, a change of 0.69% from its revised level the month prior. The JQI, produced by…
By Steven L. Byers, PhD, and Jeff Ferry Key Points The CPA Reshoring Index (CRI) came in at 69.0 in Q3 2020, a decline of 165 basis points (1.6 percentage points) as compared to the Q2 level of 70.6, indicating that US manufacturers lost share to imports in Q3. US manufacturing production rose sharply in…