The Senate bill designed to help America outwit, outlast and outplay China passed mostly along party lines. Here is what we liked about what’s inside. And where we hope the House will do some rewrites on trade matters.
The trade deficit fell in April as imports from China shrank by $6 billion. That likely won’t be enough to break the $1 trillion goods deficit barrier in 2021.
Greg Owens \ June 7, 2021 \ Industry Week The COOL bill would mandate prominent disclosure of where a product is produced, for all online retailers. Amazon has been in the news of late due to concerns over its workplace conditions. But Americans now have another reason to be apprehensive about Amazon and other e-commerce…
Executive Summary The CPA Reshoring Index is the first and only measure of U.S. producers’ share of the U.S. domestic market for manufactured goods. It is calculated from federal government data on manufacturing production, imports, and exports. The Reshoring Index for 2020 shows that U.S. producers had a 69.6% share of the U.S. market with…
If you want to build an inclusive economy, it starts with building things. CPA’s new Minorities Job Quality Index reveals how far behind Blacks and Latinos are versus the baseline. The reason: too many service jobs, not enough manufacturing jobs.
An amendment to the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (formerly Endless Frontier) is good for beef country of origin labeling, bad for tariffs. Here’s why.
Senators Tammy Baldwin, Chuck Schumer, and others want consumers to know where goods sold online were manufactured. Big Retail wants the language removed from the Endless Frontier Act. What are they so worried about?