U.S. drugmakers are rapidly shifting the front end of America’s pharmaceutical ecosystem (e.g. discovery, early-stage-development, and the IP engine) to China through a surge of licensing deals and cross-border partnerships.
The United States is facing a new form of strategic dependence: Chinese-linked firms are reentering critical American industries through influence and control rather than visible ownership.
The current cost-of-living crisis – defined by the soaring cost of essential services – is not the result of excessive consumer demand or short-term inflation shocks. It is the product of decades of trade and industrial policy choices that weakened middle-class wage growth.
CPA’s submission, “Ensuring U.S. Sovereignty in North American Trade,” concludes that the current trilateral USMCA framework binds two vastly different economies to one unenforceable system—with each reliant on the far larger U.S. consumer market.
The report, titled “Section 232 Steel Tariffs are Necessary for National Security,” highlights how the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs have revitalized American manufacturing, created jobs, and strengthened national security.
KEY POINTS Beef prices are at record highs—not because of U.S. ranchers or tariffs, but because dependence on foreign imports and meatpacker consolidation have distorted
The report, titled “America’s Chip-for-Chip Tariff Policy: The Urgent Fight to Reclaim Industrial Independence Before It’s Too Late,” finds that the United States now produces only 10 percent of the world’s chips—and almost none of the most advanced ones—while China has captured the majority of global capacity for legacy chips, the mature semiconductors essential to cars, medical devices, and industrial equipment.
Titled “The New Biotech Cold War: The U.S. Medicine Can’t Afford to Fall Behind China,” the report shows how U.S. biotech – long a pillar of national strength – no longer has a guaranteed edge globally.
The U.S. Shipbuilding Base has Withered Since the 80s; Latest CPA Report Examines What’s Needed to Bring it Back
The August 2025 inflation report has reignited debate over tariffs. Some pundits have been quick to blame trade policy for rising prices, invoking Smoot-Hawley comparisons and warning of disaster on the scale of the Great Depression. But the data tells a different story.
