Roddey Dowd of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Wins CPA Industry Leader Award
A stalwart and a titan of American manufacturing, Roddey Dowd Jr., wins the Coalition for a Prosperous America’s Industry Leader Award.
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Mike Pompeo Speaks at CPA; Recalls Beginning of China Trade War
Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State under President Trump, was the keynote speaker at CPA’s annual meeting on April 5, 2022. Here is what he told the gathering.
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Is a Strong Dollar Really all That Important?
Ex-World Banker John Hansen explains why a strong dollar might not be as good as the Washington-Wall Street consensus would have us think.
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CPA Applauds Wyden, Portman Bipartisan Bill to Disallow Foreign Tax Credits and Other Tax Benefits for Companies Operating in Russia
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today applauded Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senate Finance Committee Member Rob Portman (R-OH) for releasing a discussion draft of legislation to disallow Foreign Tax Credits for companies that pay taxes to the Russian government, and other tax benefits. Yesterday, CPA released a…
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CPA Applauds Unanimous Senate Vote to Revoke Russia’s PNTR Status
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) applauded the U.S. Senate for unanimously passing amended legislation that would repeal permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status for Russia and Belarus. The Senate action follows a unanimous vote in the House last month to revoke Russia’s PNTR status. The House passed the amended Senate bill…
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At Latest ITC Hearing, Anti-Dumping and Trade Deals Holding Manufacturing Jobs Hostage
The International Trade Commission held its seventh roundtable discussion on the impacts of foreign trade on American workers and manufacturing. CPA Chairman Zach Mottl was one of the speakers.
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JQI Edges Up As COVID Recovery Continues
WASHINGTON — The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today announced that the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) rose to 80.43 in February, up 0.33%from the previous month, reflecting a rise in high-wage jobs that exceeded the rise in low-wage jobs in the month. The job count grew significantly in high-quality sectors including construction, professional/business services,…
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Katherine Tai Hammered in Hearings on Free Trade, Market Access
It sounded like the 1980s in Congress this week. Free trade and open markets were all the rage in a Senate Finance Committee hearing and a House Ways and Means Committee hearing with America’s top trade diplomat, Katherine Tai.
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Deglobalization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
P&O Ferries is the largest operator of ferryboats between the British Isles and the European Continent, a $1.1 billion company carrying 10 million passengers a year. Two weeks ago, on March 24, P&O shocked its 800 employees by firing all of them. But it was less what it did than how it did it. On…
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Trade Commission Hears from Detroit Workers Left Behind by Trade
Black workers in Detroit have been “devastated” by globalization. A few Michigan steelworkers give the International Trade Commission an earful on offshoring in the latest series on how trade impacts local communities.
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