Trade
With a level playing field and an accessible market, manufacturers in America can out-perform any competitor. That’s why we need smart trade deals that expand opportunities to sell our products around the world and ensure global trade is fair.
U.S. Works to Fix WTO’s Dispute Settlement System
July 14, 2022The Wall Street Journal (subscription). The basics: The WTO is a forum of 164 member countries that negotiate trade agreements, settle disputes and develop and monitor the implementation of trade rules and regulations. In recent years, it has been less effective owing, to a significant degree, to a failure to appoint appellate body judges, hamstringing…
North American Manufacturing Industry Statement on the Two-Year Anniversary of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement
July 1, 2022Washington, D.C. – The leading organizations representing manufacturers and millions of manufacturing workers in the United States, Mexico and Canada released the following statement on the two-year anniversary of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA/T-MEC/CUSMA): “On this two-year anniversary, we recognize the substantial value that this agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement have represented…
New Study: Ports Stoppage Would Be Devastating Hit to Manufacturers’ Competitiveness
June 29, 2022Cost Economy Half a Billion Dollars a Day, Destroy 41,000 U.S. Jobs
Washington, D.C. – As negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union near a critical deadline, manufacturers are sounding the alarm about potential economic consequences of a port stoppage if disruption were to occur over two weeks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s largest port complex.
WTO TRIPS Decision Jeopardizes Pandemic Response, Manufacturing Competitiveness
June 17, 2022Washington, D.C. – Following a decision by the World Trade Organization to lift intellectual property protections for COVID-19 products, National Association of Manufacturers President and CEO Jay Timmons released the following statement: “This damaging decision will undermine American innovation, competitiveness and technology leadership—weakening manufacturing in America and threatening the jobs of manufacturing workers. Even worse…
