Fentanyl Hearing Starring Country Music Star Jelly Roll Talks Sanctions; Mainly Threatens China
This week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on fentanyl was high on celebrity, short on solutions.
This week’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on fentanyl was high on celebrity, short on solutions.
The roughly two-year-old Uyghur Forced Labor Law (UFLPA) may be pushing a boulder uphill thanks in large part to the de minimis provision that allows for $800 of duty free shipments from around the world to enter the U.S. Those packages do not face the same scrutiny as those coming in from formal entry. Christa…
A Customs investigation prompted by the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA) suggests Southeast Asian exporters of kitchen and bath cabinetry and vanities are picking up where the mainland Chinese left off.
Supply chains are still in the hands of Chinese companies but have been “rejiggered” to Vietnam and elsewhere.
Akin to granting PNTR to China in 2000 WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) called on the Biden administration to reject misguided calls to revoke the non-market economy status of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam — a nation where the economy remains highly controlled by the government. According to a report by…
The October trade deficit rose, but the biggest takeaway from the latest data is how much the China goods gap is in decline this year.
In the wake of the COVID pandemic, consumers have become painfully aware of America’s heavy dependence on imports. The recent Amoxicillin shortage in hospitals has made this particularly clear since the United States is now highly reliant on imported antibiotics and other lifesaving medications. The United States is so deep in the hole when it…
Last year, more than 73,000 Americans died from an overdose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The drug itself is cheap and readily available, with thousands of pounds flowing into the United States from Mexico every month. In fact, fentanyl seizures at the U.S.-Mexico border increased 164 percent between 2020 and 2022 alone. Even more disturbing is that Americans can now have…
Manifest Modernization Act would require companies like FedEx and DHL, which import goods into the U.S., to follow same rules as ocean shipping companies. The bill was written by Sens. Cassidy and Whitehouse.
The leaders of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee grilled a government official on the EV batteries supply chain. From copper to EV battery minerals, the U.S. is way behind.