Supply Chain Archives

Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that underlying conditions, including a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, disparate tariff rates and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption, as indicated by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.

April 3, 2025 No Comments

Illinois officials warn about impact of Trump’s tariffs

(The Center Square) – As President Donald Trump makes good on his promise to slap tariffs on goods entering the U.S., Illinois officials are chiming in on the impact they will have on the state.

February 17, 2025 No Comments

IL Congressman discusses tariffs with TMA

SCHAUMBURG – Illinois U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood visited online in February with TMA News Editor Fran Eaton and TMA Advocacy Team’s Rich Carter to discuss several issues of importance to the Association’s members. The topic that was most pertinent at the time was President Donald Trump’s propositions to resume the use of trade tariffs.

February 10, 2025 No Comments

TMA’s Supplier Network: Transforming needs and ideas into solutions and actions

TMA Associate members are businesses that offer services, equipment, machinery, or materials unique to companies that qualify as manufacturer members that are not normally performed by manufacturer members.

Affiliate members consist of companies providing services to manufacturer members by neither manufacturer nor Affiliate members.

Together, the Associates and Affiliates create TMA’s robust Supplier Network.

November 13, 2024 No Comments

LaHood, HPSCI Republicans Sound Alarm on Temu, Request Briefing from FBI and SEC

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-16), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Subcommittee on NSA & Cyber and House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member, led his Intelligence Committee Republican colleagues to request a briefing from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) on the growing national security and personal data concerns surrounding the CCP-linked entity Temu and their parent company, Pinduoduo (PDD).

September 25, 2024 No Comments

Federal Lawmakers Advise Caution In Welcoming Gotion To Illinois

https://youtu.be/A6JGQkoevBc WASHINGTON DC – “We have to be dubious and skeptical of Chinese-related companies, particularly those tied to the Communist Chinese Party and state-owned enterprises,”

September 16, 2024 No Comments

Settling in with the Family Business, John Mroczek Jr. of JBW Machining

By Fran Eaton – Having traveled and studied abroad, John Mroczek Jr. says he’s settled into the family business for two reasons: 1. the joy

September 5, 2024 No Comments

IL Congress members Krishnamoorthi and LaHood Introduce the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act

Companies based in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) frequently commit crimes violating U.S. trade laws including fraud, duty evasion, and transshipment which benefit the PRC’s non-market economy and undermine U.S. companies and workers.

July 29, 2024 No Comments

Op-Ed: Get China out of America’s military supply chain

Congress should use Defense Authorization Act to enforce domestic sourcing rules

July 1, 2024 No Comments

TMA Announces New Freight Partner with Industry Leader Estes Association Solutions

SCHAUMBURG, IL – The Technology & Manufacturing Association has partnered with Estes Association Solutions, the largest privately owned freight carrier in North America, to ensure small and midsize manufacturers can ship and receive critical components with efficiency and reliability throughout the country.

April 18, 2024 No Comments

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