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Harrisburg Patriot News, June 18, 2008

China’s Cheatin’ Ways and the Politicians that Ignore Them: Why Pennsylvania should ask the primary questions

By Kerri Houston

A big red boot with a prominent yellow star is running roughshod over Pennsylvania, stomping on jobs in its wake.

Pennsylvania’s workers and business owners are well aware of Read More » »

Get Tough with China

The China Question
By Scott Paul

Published in the April 14, 2008 Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Every day, America sends the equivalent of $700 million to China. That’s the toll of our imbalanced trade relationship with the regime in Beijing. We ship our manufacturing jobs, consumer dollars, and technological know-how to Read More » »

Keep it ‘Made in Pennsylvania’: Ask presidential candidates how they will support the key issue to our state — manufacturing, Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, By Scott Paul

There’s much at stake in the next presidential election. From Iraq to health care, voters have a lot riding on Read More » »

GOP candidates need to step up and confront China, Greenville News

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

By Kerri Houston

Since the 2008 presidential campaign began, each of the GOP frontrunners has likened himself to the unrivaled hero of the party faithful, Ronald Reagan. But the continuous stream of personal comparisons to President Read More » »

Keep it ‘Made in the Carolinas,’ Charlotte Observer

By Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a partnership of several leading U.S. manufacturers and the United Steelworkers.
The Carolinas have been hard hit by manufacturing job loss. More than 211,600 N.C. and 91,400 S.C. factory jobs have vanished Read More » »

Attention All Candidates: On Trade, Ignore the Editorials, Just Keep Listening to the People

By Scott N. Paul
The Huffington Post
June 14, 2007

What happened after Sen. Hillary Clinton announced in Detroit on Saturday that she would oppose the proposed US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, based on her careful analysis Read More » »

Americans deserve more from presidential candidates on jobs, economy

By Scott N. Paul
The Huffington Post
June 2, 2007

The presidential candidates—Democratic and Republican—will have plenty of opportunities to discuss jobs and the economy at the scores of debates scheduled over the summer. But two questions will determine whether or not Read More » »

Rebuttal: Manufacturing group isn’t anti-China

By Horace Cooper
Detroit News
May 30, 2007

In response to Daniel Griswold’s May 11 column (”Record profits finance manufacturing group’s anti-China trade campaign”), the Alliance for American Manufacturing is not anti-China. This discussion about American manufacturing is too important to be sidetracked by labels, and Read More » »

Will China Play by the Rules?

By Scott N. Paul
The Huffington Post
May 21, 2007

This week in Washington, the Secretaries of the Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, as well as the U.S. Trade Representative and EPA Administrator, will sit across the table from their Chinese counterparts. For two days, Read More » »

Trade with China

Trade with China
May, 16, 2007
Letter-to-the Editor
Chicago Tribune

The editorial “Slouching toward a trade war” is needlessly alarmist about proposed responses to China’s unfair, illegal and market-distorting trade practices. The reality is Read More » »