Tag: trade

February 8, 2024

For the first time in more than two decades, the United States imported more goods from Mexico than China, Census data revealed on Wednesday. This apparent world trade transformation, along with news of a more than 10% reduction in the […]

February 5, 2024

When the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect in 2022, one of the types of imports most often detained by U.S. Customs officials was solar products from China. In 2022 alone, 1,423 individual shipments of solar products […]

January 17, 2024

New data from Tradeshift suggests a modest uptick in global trade activity during Q4 following an acceleration in new orders during the quarter. According to Tradeshift’s latest Index of Global Trade Health, global trade transaction volumes improved to 4 points […]

January 16, 2024

The United States cannot invest in its factories and expect to reclaim its position as the world’s leading manufacturer and innovator without addressing the role trade has played and continues to play in eroding the sector, a recent New York […]

December 18, 2023

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen last week outlined three objectives for her agency’s engagement with China next year and announced that she will visit the nation in 2024, a signal the Biden administration is working to ease tensions with China. But […]

December 14, 2023

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai reaffirmed the Biden administration’s commitment to trade action during remarks at Semafor’s “State of Made in America” event Wednesday. A congressionally mandated four-year review of Section 301 tariffs has been long awaited by the […]

December 5, 2023

The House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is preparing to recommend the United States revoke China’s permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status, which keeps the tariff rate on most Chinese imports to the United States […]

December 1, 2023

The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) held a reception this week at Shinola’s Washington, D.C. store to show off some of the cool gifts featured in this year’s Made In America Holiday Gift Guide. On display we had MASU from […]

October 2, 2023

Workers at a West Virginia tin mill reeling from the devastating impacts of unfair trade received a Senatorial show of support last week. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) visited the Weirton tin mill to meet with […]

September 27, 2023

Supply chain disruptions are easing. That’s the takeaway from a recent survey of large companies – firms with annual revenues from $500 million to $50 billion – that said their losses attributed to such problems halved in 2022 as compared […]

September 7, 2023

There’s always a lot of complaining when a domestic manufacturer asks the federal government to enforce U.S. trade law. Importing industries, or their associations, will often smear petitioners, as happened to the California solar panel manufacturer that accused Chinese companies […]

August 28, 2023

Economists, financial leaders, and central bank officials from around the globe flew into Jackson Hole, Wyoming over the weekend for the annual Jackson Hole Symposium, which examined some of the big shifts happening in the global economy. One of the […]

August 3, 2023

Reuters published a story Thursday examining the increasingly hawkish stance toward China taken by the top GOP presidential candidates on the campaign trail, noting that several of them are now calling for an end to China’s normalized trade status. Now, […]

July 13, 2023

Another call has been made for the U.S. government to reconsider the trade status that grants Chinese imports a lower tariff rate. They’re starting to stack up. This was once the territory of trade hawks, but no more. After two […]

June 20, 2023

Members of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) team hit Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge Members of Congress to support brand new legislation designed to equip American workers and manufacturers with new trade tools to take on some of […]

June 7, 2023

America’s steel industry made a spectacular turnaround at the start of the decade after facing years of layoffs and plant closures due to surging unfairly traded imports. But labor and business leaders warned the Congressional Steel Caucus on Wednesday morning […]

May 12, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain shortages that followed exposed just how vulnerable the offshoring of critical manufacturing had left the United States. One of the most frustrating things about those crises was that United States itself was to blame, […]

May 9, 2023

Members of Congress headed to a container ship terminal in Staten Island on Tuesday — “the birthplace of Pete Davidson,” as hometown Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) described it — for a special field hearing to examine how trade is impacting […]

May 2, 2023

Two dozen Members of Congress wrote to the SEC on Monday to ask the agency to mandate that online retailer SHEIN “certify via independent verification” that it does not use forced labor as a condition for its potential Initial Public […]

April 17, 2023

Deputy United States Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi alluded to the possible imposition of further tariffs on Chinese imports while speaking at the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development’s inaugural Rethinking World Trade 2023 conference on April 13. In her remarks, […]