ITC verdict on cabinets from China: U.S. industry injured, final AD/CVD duties to come

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…

Employee Paid Sick Leave During the Corona Pandemic: What it means for America’s small businesses

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)…

Ventilator Blues

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…

CPA Urges Trump Administration to Invoke Defense Production Act on Ventilators

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…

Ways and Means Contributions to House Democrats’ Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act

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’…