On Sunday, August 7, the Senate voted 50-50, with Vice President Harris breaking the tie, to pass the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act into law. The bill attracted zero Republican votes. This bill will have detrimental effects on American taxpayers and healthcare patients.
Read MoreSenators Chuck Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have come together to negotiate a reconciliation package on energy, health, and tax policy that will harm Americans and will not achieve their purported goals.
Read MoreMost Americans value their right to privacy just as much as their right to free speech. The United States is in a “Great Race,” battling China to be the leader in technological development, and our values regarding privacy and free speech are at the center of the fight…
Read MoreSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is proposing a dangerous plan to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to “negotiate” drug prices for Medicare. The plan represents an agreement among all Democrats, including President Joe Biden and the usually more astute U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Read MoreExecutive Director Kent Kaiser joined The Dave Elswick Show and The Steve Gruber Show to discuss fertilizer tariffs.
Read MoreOn Friday, June 17, encouraged by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) voted to remove intellectual property (IP) protections on COVID-19 vac
Read MoreThe price of fertilizer is not a topic that regularly makes its way into general news coverage. Enter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , and for the past couple of months, there has been a flurry of stories in the press about fertilizer supply and prices with phrases such as “global shortage,” “skyrocketing prices,” and a resulting “food crisis.”…
Read MoreIn October 2020, India and South Africa petitioned the World Trade Organization (WTO) to suspend certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in order to nullify intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics on the premise that IP rights were potential barriers to research and development, public-private collaborations, and access to COVID-19 products.
Read MoreAmerican broadband networks are among the best performing in the world. They showed their strength and reliability throughout the pandemic. Private investments into these networks have made them better performing and more affordable for broadband customers. Claims against these networks cite the higher prices of U.S. networks when compared to other nations, but this critique misses the bigger picture.
Read MoreFertilizer prices are skyrocketing as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. Reversing tariffs on reliable suppliers will provide relief to U.S. farmers suffering from high prices.
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity and a coalition of more than 40 organizations has written to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to express opposition to undermining intellectual property rights that exist for COVID-19 vaccines under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)…
Read MorePursuing lower prescription drug prices for Americans is a laudable goal, but ransacking foreign medicine cabinets and importing market-distorting, socialist price controls are not the answers. TAPP wrote to U.S. Senators today to urge opposition to drug importation schemes and provide five key points on why drug importation is a bad idea for America…
Read MoreDue to the pandemic and several other factors, America’s farmers are facing near record-high fertilizer costs, supply chain issues, and labor shortages. The last thing they need is government interference in the marketplace that makes the situation worse.
The federal government’s decision last year to impose countervailing duties (“tariffs”) on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer imports blocked farmers’ access to the largest producer in the world and a longstanding, trusted supplier, which has contributed to skyrocketing prices for this key crop input…
Read MoreUnited States Trade Representative Katherine Tai recently announced that a “compromise outcome” was reached with the European Union, South Africa, and India on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver related to COVID-19 vaccines. The agreement on TRIPS protects intellectual property for COVID-19 treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics. The USTR’s action negates intellectual property rights.
The so-called compromise was made before informing Congress on the specifics of the text, violating the Transparency Principles USTR established in 2021. USTR Tai has gone rogue and totally disregarded her obligation to provide Congress all texts for trade proposals at the World Trade Organization. The guidelines are clear: “consultation and engagement is vital to ensuring that trade policy reflects American interests and American values.”
Read MoreApril 26 is World Intellectual Property Day. Started in 2000, World IP Day offers an opportunity to join with people around the world to consider how intellectual property (IP) enables and enlivens the innovation and creativity that drives human progress. World IP Day highlights the role that IP rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity…
Read MoreIn October 2020, India and South Africa petitioned the World Trade Organization (WTO) to suspend certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in order to nullify intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics on the premise that IP rights were potential barriers to research and development, public-private collaborations, and access to COVID-19 products…
Read MoreOn March 17, 2022, a bipartisan group of 86 members of Congress wrote to ITC Chairman Jason Kearns and urged him to reconsider countervailing duties on phosphate imports from Morocco and to suspend the process of imposing new duties on urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago…
Read MoreAt the request of the giant Mosaic Company, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) will soon decide whether to impose countervailing duties on phosphate imports from Russia and Morocco. These tariffs would greatly inflate the cost of phosphate fertilizers for American farmers, a product used on 60% of American lands under plow…
Read MoreGlenn Hubbard’s new book, “The Wall and The Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake,” is promoted as “an informed argument for an economic policy based on bridges of preparation and adaptation rather than walls of protection and exclusion.”
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity and over 30 organizations have written a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, urging him to oppose abuse of the Bayh-Dole Act's march-in provisions on the prostate cancer drug Xtandi…
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