Silverado Policy Accelerator

Silverado has updated our Trump Administration Executive Order Tracker to include the March 20th Mineral Production EO plus recent actions on artificial intelligence. ?? View the EO Tracker on our website ?? https://lnkd.in/gtUuNTe7 ?? View the EO ?? https://lnkd.in/ew-3MmZU #TradePolicy #CriticalMinerals #ExecutiveOrders

? What’s in the newly released?executive?order, “Immediate Measures to Increase Critical Minerals Production?? Here’s what’s changing: ??Faster-Tracked Permitting?– Cutting red tape to accelerate mining project approvals. ???Expanded Critical Minerals List?– Now includes?uranium, copper, potash, and gold, with more additions possible. ???Increased Federal Land Use for Mining?– Prioritizing federal mineral-rich lands for extraction and production. ????Defense Production Act (DPA) Expansion?– The?DoD and DFC?now have greater authority to?fund and facilitate domestic mineral projects. ???Creation of a Dedicated U.S. Mineral Production Fund?– Directs Department of Defense and DFC to establish a dedicated mineral fund for domestic investments executed by the DFC. ????More Government Loans & Incentives?– Increased support for mining businesses via?SBA, Ex-Im Bank, and other agencies. ???Modernizing the Mining Act of 1872?– Streamlining operations and updating waste disposal regulations. See the EO here: https://lnkd.in/ew-3MmZU

?? Foundational Chips Alert ?? Silverado Policy Accelerator submitted comments and provided testimony to USTR on its?Initiation of Section 301 Investigation: China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Targeting of the Semiconductor Industry for Dominance: ?? Comments https://lnkd.in/g9m3Yr-d ?? Written Testimony https://lnkd.in/g3rbT3xD ?? Oral Testimony https://lnkd.in/gXeQc_PZ ?? Key Takeaways 1. While US and allied measures have been aimed at controlling advanced technology, China has been doubling down on becoming the dominant player for "foundational" chips (also called legacy or mature), which accounted for about three-quarters?of global production capacity in 2024. 2.?China leads foundational chip production in the 20-180 nm node sizes (excluding memory), and is on track to install three times as much capacity during 2024-2027 than any other country. This is being fueled by the CCP's largely unchecked non -market industrial policies. 3.?Ceding the foundational chip market to China means that it has control over whether items are ultimately built – it can hold back its supply from the US and rest of the world. It can depress prices to gain market share from U.S. companies. It can use this leverage to push back on US measures to prevent IP theft and technology transfer of advanced nodes. 4. Section 301 is an important trade?tool to counter China’s unfair, unreasonable, and discriminatory practices and allow the U.S. to compete on fair footing. It can be used most effectively by covering not only imports of wafers, but?Chinese designed and fabricated semiconductors that are a component in another product, i.e., component tariffs. 5. Designing a component tariff system is viable and can be done working with industry partners. It must also be coupled with measures to promote U.S.?manufactured chips. #semiconductors #foundationalchips #chinatrade #tariffs

How Can the U.S. Fight Back Against China’s Unfair Trade Practices???? Silverado Policy Accelerator’s latest comments to USTR reveal how China tilts the playing field in its favor, undermining U.S. industries: ???Semiconductors: China is pouring state resources into expanding its chip development and dominating foundational chip fabrication, aiming to become largely self sufficient by 2027. ?? Critical Minerals: China controls the refining and processing of many minerals and is weaponizing this dominance through export bans and controls. ???Environmental Loopholes: China benefits from weak or unenforced environmental regulations, cutting costs at the expense of fair competition. ???Exploiting U.S. Trade Agreements: China seeks to use electric vehicle joint ventures and strategic investments to bypass tariffs and gain unfair market advantages in the U.S. market - an approach used for other products. Combatting non-reciprocal or non-market practices requires?a two-pronged strategy: strategically imposing U.S. import measures like tariffs?on key products/sectors?while simultaneously pursuing U.S. export market openings and the reduction in non-tariff barriers. Read the entire submission below??? #tradepolicy #China

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Silverado has updated our EO tracker to include all trade and energy related issues released since Inauguration Day. ?? View the tracker on our website ?? https://lnkd.in/gtUuNTe7 #TradePolicy #CriticalMinerals #ExecutiveOrders

Silverado Policy Accelerator has updated our Executive Order tracker - now with recent copper, lumber 232 investigations and amendments to previous orders on tariffs. Check it out!

Silverado has updated our EO Tracker to add recently announced Section 232 investigations into copper and lumber, plus all amendments to previously issued orders regarding tariffs applied to Canada, Mexico and China ?? https://lnkd.in/gtUuNTe7 #TradePolicy #CriticalMinerals #ExecutiveOrders

Margaret Spiegelman at Inside U.S. Trade provides excellent coverage of Silverado’s recent convening with Senators Bill Cassidy and Sheldon Whitehouse to release Silverado's report,?Economic and Environmental Impacts of a U.S. Border Pollution Measure on Steel and Aluminum??? https://lnkd.in/gEKzum2b IUST's coverage captures the cooperation and optimism the senators conveyed, which show promise to advance U.S. policy to empower American manufacturing using low-emissions steel and aluminum: ?? https://lnkd.in/gPKac6m7 ?? https://lnkd.in/g6xzNna6 #Trade #Energy #Competitiveness #Manufacturing

Silverado Policy Accelerator values the insights Senators Bill Cassidy and Sheldon Whitehouse shared during last week’s release of Silverado’s report,?Economic and Environmental Impacts of a U.S. Border Pollution Measure on Steel and Aluminum ?? https://lnkd.in/gEKzum2b ? Silverado is encouraged by the senators’ mutual optimism for the chance to advance a bipartisan U.S. border pollution measure in the near term and their acknowledgment that key administration cabinet members, including the U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, understand the importance of the interplay between industrial competitiveness and environmental policy. Senator Cassidy confirmed that: ??There is an interrelationship that must be understood between U.S. energy policy, climate policy, national security, and economic security.?These policies are “totally related” and rewarding U.S. manufacturers for lowering emissions must be combined with applying a fee to imports to ensure fair competition for U.S. workers and incentivize trading partners to lower their emissions. ??There is an intrinsic link between the power of an economy and the military power of the state.?Surrendering industrial competitiveness to China creates risks to U.S. economic and national security. ??There is an ongoing economic incentive for U.S. manufacturers to lower their emissions intensities.?The United States has an existing emissions intensity advantage, having already reducing domestic emissions although there is more room to reduce. Senator Whitehouse spoke to bipartisan potential for advancing a U.S. border pollution measure: ??It is a “very good bipartisan impulse to solve the China competition problem,” based on China’s deriving competitive industrial advantage from less strict environmental standards. ??There is a “wind at our backs” to advance a border pollution measure and newly confirmed Jamieson Greer “gets” this issue. ??Congress can land at a bipartisan border pollution bill fairly quickly, and a bill could go forward with bipartisan support for passage into law. #Trade #Energy #Competitiveness #Manufacturing