[ Peter Morici | December 09, 2016 |Deseret News] Donald Trump faces immediate challenges — managing the war against ISIS, fixing Obamacare and boosting growth to create jobs. However, as the fallout from his recent conversation with the president of Taiwan indicates, an increasingly assertive China poses the most vexing and far-reaching challenges for American prosperity and security. China…
[ Eduardo Porter| December 13, 2016 |The New York Times] Did the white working class vote its economic interests? The day after the presidential election — in a long and brooding interview with Rolling Stone magazine — President Obama offered his take on why blue-collar whites flocked so decidedly to Donald J. Trump. “This is not simply an economic issue,” Mr.…
[ Daily News | December 12, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) this week led a group of 20 Democrats asking President-elect Trump to ensure stronger enforcement and expansion of “Buy America” requirements after a push to include language on the issue in a water resources bill fell short before the 114th Congress adjourned.…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145 ext 2, [email protected] Washington~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) expressed strong support for a the buy American footwear provision in the defense appropriation bill passed by the Senate last Friday, December 9. The provision mandates the purchase of American made footwear for military recruits. The provision states: In the…
[ Daily News | December 12, 2016 |Inside US Trade] The Commerce Department is unwilling to label China a market economy for the purposes of antidumping investigations, while Beijing believes the U.S. is obligated to do so under provisions of its World Trade Organization Accession Protocol that expired on Dec. 11, and immediately requested consultations with…
“There will be a tax on our soon to be strong border of 35 percent for these companies wanting to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc., back across the border,” Trump tweeted last week. Can he do that? The Very Smart People use to tell us that it was inevitable, indeed good, for companies…
[ Tom Holland| November 28, 2016 |SCMP] Among the few hard and fast policy prescriptions to emerge so far from Donald Trump’s transition team is the US president-elect’s pledge, delivered last Monday, to tear up Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in office. Calling the TPP “a potential disaster for our…
[JOSH DAWSEY, ANDREW RESTUCCIA and JENNY HOPKINSON | December 10, 2016 |Politico] Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has emerged as President-elect Donald Trump’s leading choice for agriculture secretary, sources close to the transition tell POLITICO. The first-term Democrat from North Dakota and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee has been a vocal advocate for farmers and broke from her party on several controversial…
[ KENNETH P. VOGEL | December 09, 2016 |Politico] GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Donald Trump took his pre-inauguration manufacturing job bonanza into this former manufacturing hub on Friday and stood proudly by as the CEO of Dow Chemical announced a new, state-of-the-art innovation center in the state. But the precise number of jobs that would be…
[ Shawn Donnan and Demetri Sevastopulo | December 09, 2016 |Financial Times] Donald Trump wants Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor tapped for commerce secretary, to oversee his trade policy in a controversial move that could spark a battle between the incoming administration and Congress. Mr Trump has agreed to give Mr Ross, a close friend, responsibility for handling one…