Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity Executive Director Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Financial Times. The letter discusses three bipartisan trade policies that the new Trump administration should pursue: The Level the Playing Field 2.0 Act, the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act, and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
Read MoreSoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected mark up two pro-patent bills that have been working their way through Congress this year. TAPP supports both of them to increase U.S. competitiveness globally.
Read MoreAmerican Edge Project (AEP) recently released a new survey of U.S. and European voters in order to gauge their thoughts on Chinese and Russian technological threats. The poll surveyed 1,001 registered voters in the U.S., 1,000 registered voters in the U.K., 1,001 registered voters in France, 1,004 registered voters in Germany, and 502 voters in Belgium between August 27 and September 16, 2024.
Read MoreRecently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added two new entities to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List—a steel firm and an aspartame manufacturer.
Read MoreIn June of this year, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Todd Young (R-IN), along with Reps. Terri Sewell (AL-07) and Bill Johnson (OH-06), introduced the Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act (S.1856 and H.R.3882), an updated version of the Leveling the Playing Field Act which was introduced back in 2015.
Read MoreTAPP is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to pass the Protecting American Industry and Labor from International Trade Crimes Act so it can move towards passage into law expeditiously. The United States must not tarry in the fight against Chinese companies skipping, subverting, and flouting our trade laws.
Read MoreToday, the Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity wrote to the House Select Committee on the CCP and the Congressional-Executive Committee on China to request the opening of an investigation of Milwaukee Tool for potential Section 301 tariff violations regarding imports from China.
Read MoreThis month, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) plans to deliberate over two pieces of legislation related to the U.S. Patent system. The bills in question are unnecessary and would cause numerous problems involving both patient safety and drug competition. In the midst of an election year, Congress should be working to make the U.S. patent system stronger, not passing misguided legislation at the 11th hour.
Read MoreIn the midst of the Democratic National Convention, the Biden-Harris Administration’s support of prescription drug price control policies has become evident once again. According to the DNC Platform, Democrats want to add “at least” 50 medicines a year to the price-control list, getting to 500 by the end of the decade. This is ridiculous, considering that there are not even 500 branded medicines in existence that qualify for price controls.
Read MoreTrade Alliance to Promote Prosperity Executive Director Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., wrote an op-ed that appeared recently in the DC Journal, an Inside Sources publication. The op-ed discusses looming cybersecurity threats posed by foreign adversaries like China.
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity supports reforms that hold pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) accountable, provide relief to patients, and promote market competition.
Read MoreTAPP is one of forty-one associations across the country that joined in sending a letter to Speaker Johnson and Leader McConnell in opposition to the Inflation Reduction Act’s prescription drug price controls.
Read MoreTrade Alliance to Promote Prosperity Executive Director Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., penned an op-ed that appeared recently in the DC Journal, an Inside Sources publication. The op-ed discusses a report released by American Edge Project on the risks of rising regulatory overreach on venture capital.
Read MoreThe United States under the Biden Administration’s Department of Commerce is moving once again to raise tariffs on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco just months after announcing a large cut in duties (from 19.97% to 2.12% in November 2023).
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity today wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee to urge reform of the 340B drug pricing program.
Read MoreNorth Carolina State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, recently released a report finding that 340B hospitals billed state employees an average price markup of 5.4 times their discounted acquisition costs for oncology drugs. Hospitals generated average spread profits as high as $13,617 per claim on cancer drugs paid for by the North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees.
Read MoreThe Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity recently signed onto a coalition letter urging the U.S. House Agriculture Committee to preserve and build on targeted bipartisan reforms to the U.S. sugar program that were included in the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024.
Read MoreAhead of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on May 21, the Trade Alliance to Promote Prosperity wrote to members of the committee to urge them to discuss Pharmacy Benefit Manager reforms in a hearing entitled "Ensuring Affordable & Accessible Medications: Examining Competition in the Prescription Drug Market."
Read MoreTrade Alliance to Promote Prosperity Executive Director Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., today wrote to members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance and U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee, urging reforms to pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) in light of the recent cybersecurity attack on Change Healthcare that affected an estimated one-third of Americans.
Read MoreToday is World IP Day 2024—the annual celebration of the importance of intellectual property rights. To celebrate, TAPP has signed onto a letter with twenty-two other leading and diverse organizations to celebrate IP and its role in supporting jobs, innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth.
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