Editor’s note: Make the gloves here. This is not a high labor product, as lots of automation is in the process. The United States is relying on rubber glove imports from mostly Malaysia and Thailand in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus, with no clear path for manufacturing the critical medical supply in the U.S.…
Editor’s Note: Michael Stumo is CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). Follow him at @michael_stumo The coronavirus has transformed America’s landscape, putting a renewed emphasis on hygiene measures in public places and medical facilities. In response, the Trump administration is calling on U.S. companies to ramp up production of needed medical supplies like face masks.…
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…