House Unveils New China Committee
The House of Representatives has made a key move this week to strengthen its oversight of the complex U.S.–China relationship—a development that the NAM supported.
The House has established the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, which will aim to “investigate and submit policy recommendations on the status of the Chinese Communist Party’s economic, technological and security progress and its competition with the United States,” according to the bill.
Why it’s important: The NAM has long called for more robust efforts to reset the relationship and hold China accountable for discriminatory economic practices and policies.
- These practices have had a deleterious effect on U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, as NAM Vice President of International Economic Affairs Ken Monahan told Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade Policy and Economics William Shpiece in September.
- “From unfair import and export subsidies and industrial policies to intellectual property theft, manufacturers and workers in the U.S. face an unfair playing field that harms manufacturing in the U.S. and holds back the industry,” Monahan said.
What can be done: The NAM continues to advocate several key actions, which it enumerated last May to the new committee’s predecessor, the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s China Task Force. These include:
- Boosting domestic investment in manufacturing, supply chains and infrastructure here at home;
- Increasing U.S. leadership in writing the rules of trade—globally through leading the modernization of the World Trade Organization and regionally through steps to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and new frameworks such as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework;
- Working at home and with allies abroad to tighten pressure on China to fully meet its trade and economic commitments and halt problematic trade behaviors; and
- Upgrading national security regulatory frameworks such as investment security and export controls through targeted, effective reforms.
The final word: “We have to get China right: the U.S.–China economic relationship has long needed a reset to work for manufacturers large and small across the country grappling with harmful and discriminatory Chinese trade behaviors,” said NAM Senior Director of International Trade and Regulatory Affairs Ryan Ong.
- “Manufacturers welcome robust efforts by Congress and the broader U.S. government to level the playing field for manufacturers and allow them to compete fairly everywhere, including in the U.S., China and around the world.”
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Manufacturers Unveil Competitiveness Agenda Ahead of Midterm Elections
“Competing to Win” offers a path for bringing the country together around policies, shared values and a unified purpose
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the midterm elections, the National Association of Manufacturers released its policy roadmap, “Competing to Win,” a comprehensive blueprint featuring immediate solutions for bolstering manufacturers’ competitiveness. It is also a roadmap for policymakers on the laws and regulations needed to strengthen the manufacturing industry in the months and years ahead.
With the country facing rising prices, snarled supply chains and geopolitical turmoil, manufacturers are outlining an actionable competitiveness agenda that Americans across the political spectrum can support. “Competing to Win” includes the policies manufacturers in America will need in place to continue driving the country forward.
“‘Competing to Win’ offers a path for bringing our country together around policies, shared values and a unified purpose,” said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons. “The NAM is putting forward a plan filled with ideas that policymakers could pursue immediately, including solutions to urgent problems, such as energy security, immigration reform, supply chain disruptions, the ongoing workforce shortage and more. Manufacturers have shown incredible resilience through difficult times, employing more workers now than before the pandemic, but continued resilience is not guaranteed without the policies that are critical to the state of manufacturing in America.”
The NAM and its members will leverage “Competing to Win” to shape policy debates ahead of the midterm elections, in the remainder of the 117th Congress and at the start of the 118th Congress—including in direct engagement with lawmakers, for grassroots activity, across traditional and digital media and through events in key states and districts as we did following the initial rollout of the roadmap in 2016.
The document focuses on 12 areas of action, and all policies are rooted in the values that have made America exceptional and keep manufacturing strong: free enterprise, competitiveness, individual liberty and equal opportunity.
Learn more about how manufacturers are leading and about the industry’s competitiveness agenda at nam.org/competing-to-win.
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The National Association of Manufacturers is the largest manufacturing association in the United States, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. Manufacturing employs more than 12.8 million men and women, contributes $2.77 trillion to the U.S. economy annually and accounts for 58% of private-sector research and development. The NAM is the powerful voice of the manufacturing community and the leading advocate for a policy agenda that helps manufacturers compete in the global economy and create jobs across the United States. For more information about the NAM or to follow us on Twitter and Facebook, please visit www.nam.org
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