One Year Later, Trump’s Promise to American Steel Workers Is Unfulfilled
With a deadline looming, pressure mounts on the president to make good on his campaign promise to curb Chinese steel dumping.
View ArticleHey, Jerry Nadler: Impeach Wilbur Ross!
According to a front-page story in today’s New York Times, last Friday Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which...
View ArticleHow a Status Quo Biden Cabinet Pick Would Burn
Ursula Burns, the former Xerox CEO, would carry to the Commerce Department a prodigious amount of baggage.
View ArticlePlace Human Lives Over Pharma’s Property Rights
The Biden administration is divided over whether to waive trade protections for Big Pharma—with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo as a key industry ally.
View ArticleChris Coons Working to Install Business-Friendly Candidate for Key Patent...
The Delaware senator wants a say in the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and claims to have a deal with the White House.
View Article5G Rollout Is an Administrative-State Fail
Reliable wireless networks? Safe air travel? Why not both?
View ArticleTrade Group Driving Solar Controversy Includes Slave-Labor Companies
Companies working to sideline the Commerce Department investigation into Chinese trade violations are reliant on components made by Uyghur workers.
View ArticleCommerce Department Could Pay Manufacturers to Reshore Critical Production
The bipartisan competition bill could pour billions in loans, grants, and equity investments into supply chain security.
View ArticleBiden Uses Suspect Authority to Maintain Chinese Dominance of Solar...
It invokes a 1930 trade law—questionably—to nullify a Commerce Department investigation into trade violations.
View ArticleBig Tech’s Back Door to Digital Trade Rules
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is a cat’s-paw for tech monopolies.
View ArticleTrump’s Patent Director Pressured Judges to Rule in His Law Firm’s Favor
Andrei Iancu’s policy decisions greatly benefited his business interests.
View ArticleThe Economy Is Still Robust
Today on TAP: Will the Fed take that health as a cue to keep strangling it?
View ArticleCommerce Secretary Raimondo Meets With One Corporate Executive per Day
Calendar logs from the first seven months of her tenure at Commerce show 230 different meetings with CEOs, top executives, or trade groups.
View ArticleChinese Solar Manufacturers Cheated to Avoid Duties, Government Investigation...
Today on TAP: A Commerce Department investigation found that Chinese companies shipped solar panels through Southeast Asian countries to circumvent U.S. trade law.
View ArticleReclaiming U.S. Industry
Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work.
View ArticleBiden’s Mixed Signals on Chinese Solar Meet Bipartisan Pushback
Today on TAP: Lawmakers are challenging Biden’s order protecting imports of Chinese solar panels.
View Article‘We Don’t Want a Subsidy Race’
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is set to unveil guidance on CHIPS Act funding for domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
View ArticleUnions for On-Time Construction
Today on TAP: Commerce Department urges chip-makers facing a construction labor crunch to offer child care, use union workers.
View ArticleUsing Industrial Policy to Promote Social Justice
Today on TAP: Can the Biden administration maximize its leverage—and speak with one voice?
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