CPA Praises Hike in Tariffs on Chinese Imports Tariff increase provides negotiating leverage, helps domestic manufacturers  Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today strongly praised the Trump administration’s decision to increase tariff rates on $200 billion worth of imports from China. President Trump had previously delayed a planned tariff increase—scheduled to take effect…

Editor’s note: The US has tried to prevent the serial technology thief, Huawei, from building 5G and other communications systems in the US and across the world. Prime Minister Theresa May of the UK inexplicably made a deal with Huawei to build out the British 5G network. This article shows why… because Huawei will build…

Editors note: Every product we buy carries a country of origin label, except food. Because the globalist multinational import lobby opposes telling consumers where their food is from. PATERSON, Wash. —Fifty-mile-per-hour winds and snow drifts seven feet deep greeted Ted Wishon when he checked on his cattle herd, hunkered down on a hillside along the…

Editors note. The US decision to quit the job of eating global overcapacity means that other countries must wrestle with the decision of whether they want that job. Increased tariffs designed to protect the U.S. steel industry are starting to have international repercussions in unexpected places with Malaysia launching an anti-dumping investigation into steel imported…

Excerpt. “Forget the formal structure of “trade”—tariffs, quotas and the like. They don’t matter much when the bulk of China’s imports are carried out by state owned companies, or by private companies that can only import with a license from China’s state.” So long as the bulk of China’s imports from the United States (and many…

Editors note. Administration continues increasing trade enforcement. Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether ceramic tile from China is being dumped in the United States and to determine if producers in China are receiving unfair subsidies. [May 1, 2019 |…

Excerpt: Michael Stumo, CEO of the CPA, said, “We’re very pleased to participate in the Made in America trade show. Consumers want to buy American-made products, and they understand the connection between good jobs at home and the viability of local producers. We highly recommend attending this important event and will be encouraging our members to…

Editor’s note: The array of Chinese subsidies to industries keeps metastasizing A new government program offers low-interest “red loans” to firms supporting the Communist cause. [May 1, 2019 | Bloomberg] President Xi Jinping has overseen a resurgence of party influence in China over everything from corporate boards to houses of worship, famously using a phrase…

Editors note. Tariff armageddon still is not happening. The first three months of the year saw wages for manufacturing workers rise at the most in over a decade. [John Carey | April 30, 2019 | Breitbart] The employment cost index, a measure of wages and benefits paid by businesses, for manufacturing workers rose by one…

Editors note: goods producing businesses in the US are all changing their supply chains because of the presidents trade strategy. A new survey of business economists shows that while a majority of companies have not made any changes in response to trade concerns, goods-producing businesses have had to make significant sourcing and supply-chain adjustments. [April…