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.
(The Center Square) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would prohibit electric-vehicle batteries from Gotion and several other foreign companies from being used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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.
Congress should use Defense Authorization Act to enforce domestic sourcing rules
(The Center Square) – Illinois U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Peoria, says in a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the Chinese battery manufacturer Gotion has ties with companies directly linked to slave labor genocide of Uyghurs.
Fifty-two years ago, President Nixon went to China. The news
of his visit was shocking. The Washington Post wrote, “If Mr.
Nixon had revealed he was going to the moon, he could not
have flabbergasted his world audience more.”
Washington, D.C. – Congressmen Darin LaHood (R-IL) and John Moolenaar (R-MI) have introduced the No Official Giveaways Of Taxpayers’ Income to Oppressive Nations (NO GOTION) Act. The bill would prohibit companies affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from receiving green energy production tax credits implemented by the Biden Administration in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
First published in the Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2022 – former TMA Board Chairman Zach Mottl encourages the Biden Administration to invest in the
By Jeff Ferry, CPA Chief Economist – Last year, the US raised the share of domestic demand for manufactured goods met by US production for
SINGAPORE – Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries on Sunday signed the world’s biggest free trade deal, seen as a huge coup for China in extending its influence,
