WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today wrote to Members of the House Ways and Means Committee regarding renewed efforts in Congress to “pass legislation to increase our nation’s competitiveness with China in the face of decades of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and Intellectual Property (IP), state support for key…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded a bipartisan letter led by Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in support of extending the Section 201 solar safeguard tariffs on Chinese imports, including imported bifacial solar products, for four years. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously recommended that the…
The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee wants to make China pay for its record-breaking e-commerce sales to the U.S. sold on platforms like Amazon and new China-owned retailers like Shein. He introduced a bill to make it happen.
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged the Biden administration to end the bifacial solar panel exclusion loophole after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an appeal last Friday. DOJ appealed the U.S. Court of International Trade’s (CIT) prior ruling that removed Section 201 tariffs on imports of bifacial solar panels.…
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauded new legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee. The bill will narrow an import loophole, known as de minimis, that is used by non-market economies and counterfeiters to ship hundreds of millions of packages valued…
By Charles Benoit, CPA Trade Counsel The American people don’t want to be dependent on China for things we need. But some senior Republicans in Congress continue to choose multinational corporations over Americans. By extension, they’re also choosing multinationals’ fealties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The current GOP troubles started last summer, when Senator…
90% of voters think the U.S. should manufacture renewable energy domestically 70% say the U.S. should not be dependent on China and Chinese-controlled factories in Southeast Asia for solar imports Forced labor and coal use in Chinese solar supply chains, and U.S. taxpayer dollars funding purchases of Chinese solar equipment are top concerns among voters…
The U.S. will break a $1 trillion goods trade deficit with the world this year. Neither pandemic, nor supply chain bottlenecks, nor trade war tariffs could stop it as tariff circumvention to SE Asia and a strong dollar make importing easy.
Auto industry specialist Sandy Munro says China will come to dominate the EV market in the U.S. Here’s how it happens not just here at home, but throughout the entire Americas. If Section 301 tariffs go, it happens even faster.
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) praised certain provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which was passed by both houses of Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Biden shortly. Those provisions included measures that will increase procurement of domestically manufactured goods and address the growing…