U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack has formally told Congress that it may need to repeal the country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law for meat or else change the statute to allow for a “generic label” if the United States loses a final appeal at the World Trade Organization later this month. Vilsack…
Senate Republicans and business groups are criticizing an amendment on human trafficking added to the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill in last week’s Finance Committee markup as hampering the ability of the fast-track bill to function as intended, and are trying to find ways to get it out of the legislation. Senate Finance…
Please join CPA and protect Country Of Origin Labeling. The United States Congress passed a law 10 years ago that requires meat, seafood and produce to be clearly labeled as to their country of origin. They called it Country of Origin Labeling, or COOL. But other governments and global meatpackers are challenging our COOL law. …
Will Hillary Clinton oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and the fast track authority designed to ramrod it through the Congress? She’s been noncommittal to date, with many assuming she will eventually support the president who she served as secretary of state. But by calling out his opponents, President Obama has turned the escalating battle…
If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door. [Reposted from Politico | Edward Isaac Dovere | May 4,…
Last week’s congressional committee votes to give President Obama “Fast Track” negotiating power may go down in economic history as among the most self-destructive ever. The leaders of the Republican Party betrayed their voters, may have destroyed their own political careers, and may have even destroyed America’s economic future. [Reposted from American Thinker | Howard…
The following is an Op-Ed from The Washington Times co authored by Brian O’Shaughnessy, Chairman of Revere Copper Products and Chief Co Chair and Co Chair of Manufacturing on the CPA Board of Directors. The Washington elite in both parties are famous for their bickering over issues large and small but they seem to have…
Friday, the Commerce Department is expected to report the March deficit on international trade in goods and services was $42 billion, up from $37.8 billion in February. [Reposted from the blog of Peter Morici | Peter Morici | May 4, 2015] Trade with Japan, Germany, South Korea, and China account for most of the trade…
House Republican opposition to sweeping trade legislation isn’t breaking down along traditional Tea Party-GOP establishment fault lines. [Reposted from The Hill | Scott Wong and Vicki Needham | May 3, 3015] But the pockets of GOP defections will give President Obama and Republican leaders little wiggle room to muscle a bill through the lower chamber.…
Even in these days of light-speed communication, some information still travels just about as slowly as in the medieval era. [Eamonn Fingleton | May 3, 2015 | Forbes] Take, for instance, the history of global manufacturing since World War II. In the Anglophone world, many if not most of the more prominent commentators have…
