U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will continue tariff collection Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) is praising a decision by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue the collection of duties on imports. The agency had recently proposed deferring tariffs in a misguided effort to offer relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Editor’s note: Congratulations to Wellborn Cabinets, a CPA member company, for helping win the biggest trade case in the history of history. The U.S. International Trade Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday that imports of Chinese-made wooden cabinets and vanities are hurting the U.S. industry, clearing the way for final antidumping and countervailing duty orders to…
Editor’s Note: David Morse is the tax policy director at the Coalition for a Prosperous America Education Fund. The President and Congress are currently finalizing the CARES Act to address the major economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus. However, small employers around the country are wondering what the earlier new “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” (FFCRA)…
Editor’s note: Big Pharma, the healthcare lobby and the globalist free trade groups caused the problem of medical device and supply, and drug, shortages with their offshoring advocacy and practices before. Now they are in high gear to prevent fixing that problem. They claim the order will harm efforts to provide doctors and hospitals with…
Excerpt: America’s small businesses, our machinists, die-casters, plastic injection molders, electronics parts suppliers, and others are eager to get to work providing the medical equipment the nation needs but the companies that hold the patents and process patents for this equipment need to open up and ask for bids. The Wuhan coronavirus has laid bare America’s…
Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) is urging the Trump Administration to invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) in order to rapidly increase the nation’s supply of medical ventilators. “America’s manufacturers stand ready to produce needed medical hardware,” said CPA Chair Dan DiMicco. “Yet we’ve heard troubling reports that some multinational ventilator companies are…
Editor’s note: CPA learned that Customs and Border Patrol is allowing importers to stop paying duties in some cases. And CBP is further considering a full deferment of all duties for 90 days, at the request of the multinational import lobby. CPA sent this letter below to protest any such move. View the Original Letter…
Editor’s note: R-CALF USA is a CPA member organization with a new program connecting consumers directly with US ranchers. Billings, Mont. – In the wake of reports that beef cases in grocery stores are empty in some areas of the country, R-CALF USA has launched a new Website to connect consumers with their neighboring cattle…
Editors Note: Michael Stumo is CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a national organization based in Washington, D.C. Follow him at @michael_stumo. He wrote this commentary exclusively for the News Tribune. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that globalized supply chains cause more risk than Wall Street has led us to believe. As a recent Senate…
Editor’s note: This press release from Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal shows the House Democrats legislative proposal regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Committee provisions provide support for hospitals, patients, workers, and small businesses [Congressman Richard E. Neal | March 23, 2020 | House Committee on Ways & Means] Ways and Means Contributions to House Democrats’…