CPA study on pharma reshoring on Lou Dobbs show
Editor’s Note: CPA’s study on reshoring pharma could add 800,000 jobs and $200B could be added to economy was mentioned on the Lou Dobbs show on Fox Business [March 26, 2020 | Fox Business]
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Coronavirus: U.S. Reliant on Malaysia, Thailand for Nearly All Rubber Gloves
Editor’s note: Make the gloves here. This is not a high labor product, as lots of automation is in the process. The United States is relying on rubber glove imports from mostly Malaysia and Thailand in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus, with no clear path for manufacturing the critical medical supply in the U.S.…
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“We Need More Equipment & We Need It Now” Reshoring Medical Supplies Could Create 302,000 New US Jobs
By Steven L. Byers, PhD and Jeff Ferry The US is in the midst of a public health crisis and the country is struggling with shortages of essential health care supplies. In most cases, these shortages are linked to our excessive reliance on imported supplies, which are arriving in much smaller quantities than ordered, if…
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Op-ed | Washington Must Reclassify Copper to Help Limit Coronavirus Transmission in Hospitals
Editor’s Note: Michael Stumo is CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). Follow him at @michael_stumo The coronavirus has transformed America’s landscape, putting a renewed emphasis on hygiene measures in public places and medical facilities. In response, the Trump administration is calling on U.S. companies to ramp up production of needed medical supplies like face masks.…
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CPA Praises Reversal of Customs Decision on Tariff Delays
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will continue tariff collection Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) is praising a decision by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue the collection of duties on imports. The agency had recently proposed deferring tariffs in a misguided effort to offer relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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Employee Paid Sick Leave During the Corona Pandemic: What it means for America’s small businesses
Editor’s Note: David Morse is the tax policy director at the Coalition for a Prosperous America Education Fund. The President and Congress are currently finalizing the CARES Act to address the major economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus. However, small employers around the country are wondering what the earlier new “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” (FFCRA)…
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ITC verdict on cabinets from China: U.S. industry injured, final AD/CVD duties to come
Editor’s note: Congratulations to Wellborn Cabinets, a CPA member company, for helping win the biggest trade case in the history of history. The U.S. International Trade Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday that imports of Chinese-made wooden cabinets and vanities are hurting the U.S. industry, clearing the way for final antidumping and countervailing duty orders to…
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Ventilator Blues
Excerpt: America’s small businesses, our machinists, die-casters, plastic injection molders, electronics parts suppliers, and others are eager to get to work providing the medical equipment the nation needs but the companies that hold the patents and process patents for this equipment need to open up and ask for bids. The Wuhan coronavirus has laid bare America’s…
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Big Pharma and free market orgs unite against Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order
Editor’s note: Big Pharma, the healthcare lobby and the globalist free trade groups caused the problem of medical device and supply, and drug, shortages with their offshoring advocacy and practices before. Now they are in high gear to prevent fixing that problem. They claim the order will harm efforts to provide doctors and hospitals with…
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No beef at the store? Get USA beef from the ranch
Editor’s note: R-CALF USA is a CPA member organization with a new program connecting consumers directly with US ranchers. Billings, Mont. – In the wake of reports that beef cases in grocery stores are empty in some areas of the country, R-CALF USA has launched a new Website to connect consumers with their neighboring cattle…
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