Coalition Urges Congressional Hearings on Non-Tariff Attacks Against U.S. Tech Companies

WASHINGTON-The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and a broad coalition of other leading think tanks, trade associations, and policy experts today urged the U.S. House Subcommittee on Trade to hold hearings on the growing wave of "non-tariff attacks" that foreign governments have launched against U.S. technology companies.

In a letter to Trade Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE) and Ranking Member Linda Sanchez (D-CA), the coalition of 21 signatories warned that foreign governments are weaponizing domestic policy tools such as digital services taxes, competition regulations, and data privacy laws to restrict U.S. firms' ability to innovate and compete on level terms, thereby undermining American technology leadership at the expense of U.S. economic and national security in the geostrategic competition with China. The letter called for hearings to ensure the U.S. government has tools necessary to identify, document, prevent, and respond to these measures.

Read the letter.