U.S. aluminum tariff policy must consider the full aluminum value chain. Downstream extruders and fabricators account for most aluminum manufacturing employment and are the key producers converting metal into critical products used in construction, transportation, machinery, electrical systems, packaging, defense, and other industrial markets.
Fertilizer, and access to it, is essential in maintaining the strength of the entire American agricultural sector. Mineral fertilizers are responsible for over half the food produced worldwide, and it has run up to 44 percent of corn operating costs and up to 45 percent of wheat operating costs since 2020. When fertilizer prices spike, they hit the crops that feed the country — and the livestock fed off those crops.
The 2026 Jones Act waiver has not been shown to meet its legal test, opened America’s coastwise trade to Chinese- and Russian-linked ships, and produced no demonstrated national fuel-price relief. It should expire on August 16.
This report shows in stark numbers what American patients and pharmacists already feel every day – our medicine cabinet has been hollowed out, and we are now dangerously dependent on a handful of foreign, sometimes even adversarial, countries for the drugs that keep people alive.
For the first time on record, the United States makes barely a quarter of the medicine it needs.
Trade structured to support production raises productivity, and rising productivity raises the incomes that fund consumption durably, out of earnings instead of borrowing. That is the only durable answer to the cost-of-living crisis: paychecks that can carry the price of housing, healthcare, and childcare.
One year after Liberation Day, the most aggressive tariff escalation since 2018, the United States collected just half of what its own policy prescribes.
The AI data center buildout has exposed three distinct failures in U.S. trade and industrial policy.
Without secure upstream API and 6-APA production, the United States does not have true antibiotic supply security. With the right policy framework and close coordination with European partners, we can rebuild domestic capacity, strengthen allied production, and secure essential medicines for the long term.
The report finds that the CPA Domestic Market Share Index (DMSI) – which measures the share of U.S. demand served by domestic producers – rebounded in 2025 as Section 232 tariffs and other industrial policies began to reshape the competitive landscape for American industry.
