Did you happen to catch John Oliver‘s trade piece on Last Week Tonight? It was funny but outrageously wrong in every single aspect. What’s worse is that his video has over 4.4 million views in which he is spreading his trade lies. CPA put a rebuttal video together with the truth on trade.
Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) is urging President Trump to consider vetoing the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill, which would would unilaterally eliminate tariffs on a variety of imported foods and goods that have been offshored and are no longer produced in the US. “President Trump should consider vetoing the ‘Never Make it Here Again…
CPA Chairman was quoted in this article: Foreign leaders “keep underestimating Trump on trade,” said Dan DiMicco, a former steel executive and trade adviser to Trump who was with the president Friday in Charlotte. “If he’s not tough on everybody, why is China going to believe he’s going to be tough on them?” President Trump on Saturday threatened to…
Editor’s note: Farm and ranch income has been down for three years, especially this year. China’s new swine disease outbreak could be an opportunity for US hog producers. However, antitrust market power exerted by Chinese and US owned meatpackers remains a major problem that US Dept of Agriculture has enabled rather than solved. A serious…
Editor’s note: This is an important article pointing out that a post-WTO world is not really scary because the pre-WTO world was better in many ways. The WTO tied our hands in ways we forget. President Trump called NAFTA “one of the worst deals our country has ever made” and promised to renegotiate it or scrap it…
Editor’s note: The tariff/job creation stories are only in the local/regional papers, like this one. Not on the national news because it does not fit their narrative. Jackie Rosenberg, the owner of a Louisiana pipe company founded by a Holocaust survivor more than 60 years ago, said President Donald Trump’s tariffs are good for America despite…
Framework of revised deal appears promising As the Trump administration notifies Congress of its intent to sign a trade deal with Mexico in 90 days, the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) has expressed support for the new agreement’s framework. CPA members believe US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and President Trump have put forward a new…
Editor’s note: CPA filed written comments in support of increased tariffs on China. This article picked up on our comments, which were among more than 2300 filed. Former Trump trade adviser Dan DiMicco not only supports a 25 percent tariff on $200 billion in China goods, as contemplated by the Trump administration, he wants the…
Editor’s note: This is significant because the 232 national security tariff process is being normalized, rather than treated as a “trade war”. Just something else to negotiate. [David Shepardson and Ana Isabel Martinez | August 29, 2018 | Reuters] The agreements struck between the United States and Mexico on trade would allow President Donald Trump…
Editors note: We at the CPA have been thinking about whether the WTO is worth saving or replacing. Peter Morici writes about it below. Maybe nothing should replace the WTO, but rather countries should act in their own national interests and achieve some Nash equilibrium. [ Peter Morici | August 30, 2018 | Washington Times] Any…