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Trump Administration 2025 “National Trade Estimates” Report Attacks as Illegal Trade Barriers Other Nations’ Data Security, Privacy, and Other Digital Policies Enacted Here by Congress and State Legislatures

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Press release: Trump Administration Must Choose between Big Tech and U.S. Sovereignty as Industry Seeks to Weaponize Trade Policy to Attack Data Security, Privacy Policies in Other Nations that U.S. Has Also Adopted

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Media Advisory: EVENT Featuring Sen. Murphy: Big Tech Trade Attacks on Other Countries’ Regulation Threaten U.S. Federal and State Data Security and Privacy Policy, New “Digital Trade Data Heist” Report Reveals

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Trump Trade Deal Evaluator Shows if Deals Truly Prioritize American Manufacturing and Jobs

Are Working-Class Trump Supporters Getting What They Voted for on Trade? Our Trade Pact Evaluator Tests if Deals Can Deliver on Trump’s Promises to Boost American Manufacturing and Jobs or Prioritize Other Interests Donald Trump became president twice with trade and tariff promises that drew working-class support nationwide. He promised to impose tariffs to rebuild […]

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Press Release: Study Reveals Big Tech Ploy to Internationally Preempt Privacy, Anti-Monopoly and Algorithmic Transparency Initiatives with “Digital Trade” Deals

DOWNLOAD REPORT Washington, D.C. – Big Tech interests have opened a new front in their attack against strong privacy, anti-monopoly and algorithmic transparency policies in the United States and worldwide by trying to hijack trade deals and insert “digital trade” rules that would severely limit, if not outright ban, key aspects of these policies. In […]

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Report: “Digital Trade” Doublespeak: Big Tech’s Hijack of Trade Lingo to Attack Anti-Monopoly and Competition Policies

A New Analysis of the Annual U.S. Trade Barriers Report Finds Industry Misappropriating Trade Claims to Attack Other Nations’ Competition Policies, Including Some Pending Here Download The Full Report Introduction As digital mega-platforms have continued to grow in size and expand their influence over every aspect of peoples’ public and private lives, U.S. policymakers and […]

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“China” Bills Trade War: Innovative House COMPETES Act Boosts U.S. Workers, Producers and Resilience but Senate USICA Would Make Things Worse

by Lori Wallach Welcome to Rethink Trade, where we unpack “trade” policy, law and politics and how it affects your daily life more than you think. Much of what is labeled trade today is not about actual trade stuff, like tariffs or quotas. We’ll reveal how Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street et al. use […]

Unveiling “Digital Trade” Threats to Tech Oversight

Unveiling “Digital Trade” Threats to Tech Oversight The largest online platforms, like Google and Amazon, and their myriad lobbying associations and front groups have lobbied to capture trade negotiations to insert binding trade-agreement terms that would derail countries’ online privacy, competition, artificial intelligence, right to repair, civil rights, and other policies. The companies’ goal is […]

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Op-Ed: Compact Magazine: The ‘Digital Trade’ Trap by Lori Wallach

Big Tech lobbyists and their friends at the Chamber of Commerce are gambling that tech titans’ front-row inauguration seats came with a major party favor: They demand that President Trump revive a controversial policy started by President Obama that would undercut data security, privacy, child online safety, and right-to-repair policies enacted by Congress and state […]

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