The U.S. trade agenda is jam-packed this week, with key developments taking place in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations and the U.S.-EU trade talks, along with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit, a U.S.-India commercial dialogue and a trip by World Trade Organization’s director-general to Washington. [Reposted from Inside US Trade | September 21, 2015]…
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[Editor’s Note: The following letter from Senator Warren was received by a CPA member this week.] Dear Constituent: Thank you for contacting me about trade promotion authority (TPA). As you may know, under TPA (or “Fast Track” authority), Congress agrees to expedited consideration of legislation that implements a trade agreement, and gives up its…
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For immediate release: September 18, 2015 USDA Proposes Today to Allow Fresh Beef Imports from Africa Billings, Mont. – After decades of depressed cattle prices that triggered the unprecedented liquidation of the U.S. cow herd that began in 1996, reports indicate that U.S. cow-calf producers are beginning to experience better times.…
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U.S. Business & Industry Council China Briefing: Assessing the State Visit of President Xi Jinping: How to Define Progress in Resolving Sino-US Issues U.S. lawmakers, media, and public need to know how to identify real progress on the many outstanding issues between the two countries. This events brings together distinguished experts and a leading Chinese…
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CPA is proud to be a sponsor and promoter of the 18th Annual Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Foundation Golf Outing. The Pittsburgh NTMA is a member of CPA, working for American producers and prosperity. We hope you can join us at the golf outing. Register today!
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During an interview with FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo U.S. Steel CEO Mario Longhi discussed how China is impacting the U.S. steel industry. [Reposted from the Fox News website | Julia Limitone | September 18th, 2015] “The steel business in general in the United States is under severe attack. Because… China has been dumping material…
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Chinese firms build, acquire parts plants as toehold in mature markets; Malibu door handles A two-year-old factory near Kansas City gives a good look at China’s strategy for becoming a global force in autos. [by Colum Murphy in Shanghai and Jeff Bennett in Riverside, MO | September 18, 2015 | Wall Street Journal] The…
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The U.S. Department of Commerce roughly doubled the countervailing duty (CVD) rates against Mexican sugar exporters in a final determination on Thursday (Sept. 17), in what respondent lawyers saw as a veiled warning to Mexico not to do anything that would give the department cause to terminate existing suspension agreements. The antidumping (AD) rates on…
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The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) just released the most exceptionally misguided statement on trade that I’ve seen. They attack Trump for being against losing jobs and industries to China and Japan because AEI actually favors trade deficits! AEI’s headline is “Donald Trump flunks ECON 101 when it comes to international trade“. The truth is that…
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In the 2008 campaign President Obama promised workers he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that had cost so many jobs and wages, and devastated so many communities. When he took office, he didn’t. [Reposted from the Campaign for America’s Future blog | David Johnson | September 11, 2015] Recently, the administration…
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