By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

Technology giant IBM reported its third quarter results on Oct. 17^th, and extended a stunningly long losing streak with its 22^nd consecutive quarter of declining sales.  

by Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA

We have never seen this before. The US Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, is being brutally direct with free trade zombies in Congress and the multinational import lobby - i.e. the swamp - in charting a new pro-American direction on trade. Voters sought...

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

Three rounds of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations came and went without much fanfare. But the fourth round, 

By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board

Would the MAC discourage foreign direct investment in the United States? 

Some readers have suggested that capital being brought into the United States to finance greenfield foreign direct investment should be exempted from the MAC. We should not, they argue, do anything to discourage...

By John R. Hansen, CPA Advisory Board

This note describes how a Market Access Charge (MAC) can fix US dollar overvaluation, what the MAC is, and how it would put US workers and factories back on the job. 

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

As President Trump talks more openly about aggressive action on the trade front to support the US economy, traditional economists and commentators, especially many on Wall Street, are raising the volume on a scare campaign, aimed at suggesting all sorts of imaginary negative consequences. 

By Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA, and Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

President Trump raised the possibility of withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement last week in an Arizona speech.

“Personally, I don't think we can make a deal ... I think we'll end up probably...

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

Economists in the US are overwhelmingly in favor of free trade. But they continue to be frustrated that the public doesn’t buy their arguments. 

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director 

The Trump administration’s rumored Section 301 investigation of Chinese trade practices opens up a new front in the ongoing “trade wars” with China, this time over intellectual property. A key event driving concern over Chinese use or abuse of foreign intellectual property was China’s...

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director 

New trade figures from the Department of Commerce show the US international trade picture continues to deteriorate. 

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

President Trump’s “Buy American week” was largely a feel-good event, but behind the scenes there is growing nationwide support in the political and business worlds for more US spending to go on American-made goods and services. 

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

When a large number of famous economists from all sides of the political spectrum agree on something, the odds are that it is wrong. A new letter on the subject of steel tariffs is a good example of that rule. 

This memo explains (1) the dollar overvaluation problem, (2) how to accurately calculate the dollar’s misalignment against trading partner currencies, and (3) how the Market Access Charge (MAC) that CPA and others favor would fix this serious threat to America’s future.

by Michael Stumo (CEO)
Jeff Ferry (Research Director)
and John...

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

At last month’s Paris Air Show, China showed off its latest military drone, an unmanned intelligent computer-controlled vehicle called the CH-5. 

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

Press reports emerging on Monday, July 3^rd, suggest that President Trump is pushing for a special 30-day review to amend the U.S.-South Korean trade deal known as KORUS. 

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

This past April, on a 92-mile bike ride through the hills of Monterey, California, I met a young man I’m proud to call a friend, Rasheen Malone. 

By Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA, and Jeff Ferry, Research Director

Some influential economists misleadingly assert that US trade deficits are caused by American households failing to save enough and also by federal budget deficits. Taking action against strategic foreign economic policies, their story continues, would be futile....

By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director

 A U.S. bankruptcy court has decided to sell a California mine, the sole U.S. source of rare earth minerals, to a consortium including Chinese mining company Shenghe Rare Earth Shareholding Co. If the transaction goes ahead, this would turn over the unique domestic producer...

The Office of US Trade Representative requested comments from interested parties regarding a June 27, 2017 hearing regarding NAFTA Renegotiations. This is CPA's official written testimony submitted in response.

Summary

The US needs to rethink trade agreements and unilateral trade policy options to better connect them with...

By Jason Cooper (CPA Research Assistant), Jeff Ferry (CPA Research Director), Michael Stumo (CEO of CPA)

Introduction

Trade in many fruit and vegetables has been disastrous for US agriculture and American farmers over the last two decades, following ratification of free trade agreements, notably those with Mexico (NAFTA),...