The Obama Administration continues its misguided focus on poorly negotiated trade deals, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), while ignoring market distorting factors that are harming U.S. economic growth. [Reposted from OpedNews | Michael Stumo| November 20, 2015] Magnetization, an iron ore producer in Minnesota, announced that it will layoff workers. Cliffs Natural Resources, another Minnesota iron ore…
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Friday (Nov. 6) expressed doubt that Congress will take up legislation to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the Obama administration and argued that a future Republican administration would negotiate a better deal on intellectual property protections for drugs. Inside U.S. Trade | November 23, 2015…
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The Donald Trump-led Republican presidential field has attracted outsize attention for eccentricity. With less notice, it is also pointing America to a very different tax system. [ by John Harwood | November 20, 2015 | New York Times ] That’s not because specific tax proposals that various Republican candidates have advanced will become law…
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The U.S. global trade deficit in manufactures soared by 16%, or $24 billion, in the third quarter compared with 2014, following the 19% growth in the first half of 2015. This resulted in a trade-related loss of about 150,000 American manufacturing jobs in the third quarter, headed toward more than 600,000 for the calendar year.…
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For Immediate Release November 18, 2015 R-CALF USA Submits Comments Opposing Importing Beef from Namibia [Reposted from the R-CALF USA site | November 18th, 2015] Billings, Mont. – This week R-CALF USA submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) regarding the agency’s proposed rule, Eligibility of Namibia…
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How We Got Here: Washington Politicians Let China Off The Hook In January 2000, President Bill Clinton boldly promised China’s inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO) “is a good deal for America. Our products will gain better access to China’s market, and every sector from agriculture, to telecommunications, to automobiles. But China gains no…
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Dan DiMicco was on CNBC yesterday discussing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Dan is on the board of CPA and is Chairman Emeritus of Nucor. Here is the link to the video: http://finance.yahoo.com/video/why-tpp-threatens-made-usa-124400128.html?.tsrc=applewf Like this video? Please support our work. Donate today to the CPA Education Fund as part of your end of year giving!
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Adamstown, PA, November 19, 2015 – World famous headwear brand Kangol—worn by some of the world’s top celebrities including Brad Pitt, Bill Murray, Gwen Stefani, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miley Cyrus—is making a move to bring the manufacturing of their iconic 504 style stateside with the Bollman Hat Company. With this bold move, Kangol and…
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One of the largest farm groups in the United States is stepping up its campaign against the Trans Pacific Partnership. The 12-country deal seeks to make it cheaper, and easier, to trade throughout the Pacific rim. [ by Brett Worthington | November 11, 2015 | ABC Rural ] But the National Farmers’ Union fears currency…
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If we are to make America great again, we must do all we can to make sure that American interests are protected and that all Americans benefit from the actions of their government. Sadly, that is currently not the case. The incompetent, rudderless Obama administration’s negligence in foreign policy, trade and national security is…
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