CPA at White House to Protect COOL

Charlie Blum (CPA Government Relations Director) and Bill Bullard (CPA Board member and CEO of R-CALF USA) will be at the White House Monday urging the President to protect country of origin labeling for food from challenges by the Mexican and Canadian governments and from international food companies.  They are also urging that the administration…

Michele Nash-Hoff: Brookings Institute Shows Advanced Industries are a Critical Anchor of National Prosperity

There has been a great deal of press about advanced manufacturing since the establishment of Advanced Manufacturing hubs by the Obama administration. However, most people don’t know what this really means. The Brookings Institute recently released a new report that provides the answer: “America’s Advanced Industries, what they are, where they are, and why they…

NYT Editorial: Not fully on TPP bandwagon

Modest progress. The NY Times editorial board generally endorses any “trade agreement” no matter whether they have read the agreement, no matter whether it is finished, no matter about the impacts of the last ones. Now they are lukewarm at best. Currency manipulation is the primary basis for the editorial board’s hesitation this time.  A…

Hatch Comments on Consumption Taxes/Tax Reform

  In another bit of progress, Sen. Orrin Hatch expressed reserved “interest” in a consumption tax as a part of tax reform. Why is CPA, a trade focused organization, interested in consumption taxes?  Because foreign consumption taxes are charged at the foreign border, have replaced tariffs, and thus our exports are double taxed (US tax…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose

Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the Senate. The United States is in the final stages of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive free-trade agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other countries. Who will benefit from the TPP? American workers? Consumers? Small businesses? Taxpayers? Or the biggest multinational corporations in the…