Today on TAP: Commerce Department urges chip-makers facing a construction labor crunch to offer child care, use union workers.
Commerce Department
Posted inEconomic Policy
‘We Don’t Want a Subsidy Race’
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is set to unveil guidance on CHIPS Act funding for domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Mixed Signals on Chinese Solar Meet Bipartisan Pushback
Today on TAP: Lawmakers are challenging Biden’s order protecting imports of Chinese solar panels.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Reclaiming U.S. Industry
Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work.
Posted inTAP
Chinese Solar Manufacturers Cheated to Avoid Duties, Government Investigation Finds
Today on TAP: A Commerce Department investigation found that Chinese companies shipped solar panels through Southeast Asian countries to circumvent U.S. trade law.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Commerce Secretary Raimondo Meets With One Corporate Executive per Day
Calendar logs from the first seven months of her tenure at Commerce show 230 different meetings with CEOs, top executives, or trade groups.
Posted inTAP
The Economy Is Still Robust
Today on TAP: Will the Fed take that health as a cue to keep strangling it?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Patent Director Pressured Judges to Rule in His Law Firm’s Favor
Andrei Iancu’s policy decisions greatly benefited his business interests.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech’s Back Door to Digital Trade Rules
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is a cat’s-paw for tech monopolies.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Biden Uses Suspect Authority to Maintain Chinese Dominance of Solar Manufacturing
It invokes a 1930 trade law—questionably—to nullify a Commerce Department investigation into trade violations.
