The CPA is Washington’s leading organization fighting for a new trade policy to deliver balanced trade, restored health for American industries, broadly-shared economic growth, and more jobs for American workers. Learn about the key trade issues impacting the US economy that must be solved. Research by CPA staff takes a deeper look at these issues and which policy changes can lead to dramatic improvement.
CPA Research
Is China Even Trying to Fulfill its Phase One Commitments?
May 21, 2020
Beijing buys Brazilian soy and homegrown polysilicon rather than US
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist
It is starting to look like China is unlikely to fulfill the terms of the so-called Phase One agreement on purchases of US goods and services.
5G Wireless: Pallone-Walden Bill Is a Good Start But We Need A More Aggressive Strategy
May 11, 2020
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist
Despite the COVID-19 crisis, Chinese technology company Huawei is having a good spring.
Tax Avoiders Should Not Get Bailout Money
May 06, 2020
Editor's Note: David Morse is the tax policy director at the Coalition for a Prosperous America Education Fund. Right now, Washington is preoccupied with efforts to support struggling U.S. businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Surprisingly, some companies that use tax havens to avoid paying U.S. taxes are trying to get their...
March Trade Volume Collapses as US Deficit with China Hits New Low
May 05, 2020
Overall Deficit Rises 12% Due to EU, Mexico, & Canada
By Steven L. Byers, PhD and Jeff Ferry
As the US went into a self-imposed quarantine, US trade volume collapsed, with exports down 11 percent from a year ago and imports down 12 percent.
Expect More and Get Way More than Expected: Buy American
April 30, 2020
Editor's Note: Greg Owens, owner Co-Founder & CEO, Sherrill Manufacturing/Liberty Tabletop, is the Co-Chair of CPA's Buy American committee. SHERRILL, N.Y. – Many of us have a renewed sense of purpose in our purchasing and are making conscious decisions to seek out and buy American made products. We all know this...
Videoconference with Zoom—and Invite Some Chinese Spies to Your Next Meeting
April 24, 2020
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist
Millions of people stuck at home are now using the Zoom videoconferencing application. Zoom claims 300 million daily users. But how many of those 300 million know that Zoom is a product that is made in China?
Main Street Lending program
April 17, 2020
CPA is working to keep you up to date on the CARES Act lending programs. Here is additional information that may help your business regarding the new Main Street Lending program and the previously announced Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The PPP is the most popular lending program because the loan...
International View: Japan, France Preparing to Move Supply Chains Out of China
April 17, 2020
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist According to rumors circulating in Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron recently had a phone call with Chinese president Xi Jinping in which the Frenchman asked for an emergency shipment of a billion face masks to cope with the COVID crisis. The Chinese president is...
Made in America 2030: A Smart Infrastructure and Industrial Strategy Can Make Post-COVID America Stronger
April 16, 2020
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist
Abstract
As we emerge from the current lockdown and economic freeze, the US economy will need a substantial boost.
Tax Strategy
Paycheck protection program update for CPA members
April 06, 2020
This is an update on the Paycheck Protection Program which is part of the Small Business Interruption Loan Program within the recently passed CARES Act.
CPA members with 500 or less employees can start applying as of last Friday, April 3. You can start applying through your local bank.
Trade in the Time of Coronavirus – China Trade Deficit Hits 14-Year Low
April 02, 2020
By Steven L. Byers, PhD and Jeff Ferry
US trade with China was drastically disrupted in February in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
What does COVID stimulus bill - CARES Act - do for small CPA member companies?
March 30, 2020
By David Morse, Tax Policy Director The president just signed the CARES Act after a week of negotiations in the Senate, and a Congressional kerfuffle that required an emergency recall of House members to the Capitol. Newspapers have spent much ink on individual check expectations and considerable corporate loan restrictions....
“We Need More Equipment & We Need It Now” Reshoring Medical Supplies Could Create 302,000 New US Jobs
March 27, 2020
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.
Employee Paid Sick Leave During the Corona Pandemic: What it means for America’s small businesses
March 26, 2020
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...
Reshoring US Pharmaceutical Production Would Create 800K Jobs
March 17, 2020
Health, Security, Economic Benefits from Reshoring
By Steven L. Byers, PhD and Jeff Ferry
With the spreading coronavirus pandemic, Americans are becoming increasingly aware of our dependence on foreign sources for important pharmaceuticals and other health care products.
US Tariffs Reducing Trade Deficit; Continued Improvement in 2020
March 06, 2020
By Steven L. Byers, PhD and Jeff Ferry
The US trade deficit in goods and services for January 2020 fell 6.7 percent from December, to $45.3 billion, as January’s monthly imports decreased more than exports.
Buy American
E-Commerce and Your Family
March 05, 2020
How safe are the items you are purchasing online?
By Greg Owens
On January 24, 2020 there was a press conference in Washington given by the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for US Customs, and Dr. Peter Navarro, Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Policy.
2019, A Year in Trade: Imports Decline; China Imports Relocate
March 04, 2020
In 2019, the US trade deficit, our total imports and our goods imports all declined. These are all positive developments for the US economy and especially so because key indicators of the overall US economy, including GDP and personal consumption expenditure, grew at healthy rates last year.
US Capital Flow Management in the 1960s: The Interest Equalization Tax
February 20, 2020
By Steven L. Byers, PhD and Jeff Ferry
With the introduction of the Baldwin-Hawley bill (S 2359) into the US Senate, capital flow management tools are once again an important issue.
Steel Tariffs Deliver Higher Growth, Lower Imports and Lower Prices
February 14, 2020
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist
The Section 232 steel tariffs are reducing the volume of steel imported into the US, providing breathing space for the US industry, which is expanding.
