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USTR Releases Annual Report Documenting Rising Barriers to Digital Trade
March 31, 2022
Washington -- The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its annual National Trade Estimate (NTE) report that plays a valuable role in identifying and addressing barriers for internet servic...
CCIA Files Briefing Dealing With Multi-sided Markets In Epic v. Apple Case
March 31, 2022
Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for its review of an antitrust-based lawsuit, Epic ...
House E&C To Question FCC About Internet Access, Spectrum At Oversight Hearing
March 31, 2022
Washington – Four FCC commissioners will testify Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce communications subcommittee’s planned oversight hearing. Though President Biden nominated Gigi Sohn i...
CCIA Encourages Biden Administration to be Ambitious with Trade Agenda and Address Discriminatory Practices of Trading Partners
March 30, 2022
Washington -- The U.S. House Ways & Means Committee and the U.S. Senate Finance Committee are scheduled to hold hearings this week with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on the 2022 Biden Tr...
CCIA, 31 Other Organizations, Scholars Ask Congress To Oppose Controversial Copyright Proposal, Tech Mandates
March 29, 2022
Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association, along with 31 other civil society groups, academics, associations, and companies sent a letter expressing their concerns about le...
CCIA Statement on Political Agreement on the EU Digital Markets Act
March 25, 2022
Brussels, BELGIUM -- European Union leaders have reached a political agreement on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) proposal. The compromise between the European Parliament, the Commission, and the Counci...
CCIA Applauds EU-US Agreement on Transatlantic Data Flows
March 25, 2022
Brussels, BELGIUM -- U.S. President Biden and European Commission President von der Leyen announced today “an agreement in principle on a new framework for transatlantic data flows.”
Thousands of...
CCIA Statement on the Enactment of the Utah Consumer Privacy Act
March 24, 2022
Washington – Governor Spencer Cox has signed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act into law, making Utah the fourth U.S. state to enact comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation. The law will take e...
CCIA Welcomes Launch of U.S-UK Trade Dialogues
March 22, 2022
Washington – U.S. and UK officials met in Baltimore this week for the launch of
U.S.- UK Dialogues on the Future of Atlantic Trade. The Computer & Communications Industry Association welcom...
Economic Study Finds Congressional Antitrust Bills to Cost Consumers, Business Users $319 Billion
March 22, 2022
Washington -- A comprehensive economic study by National Economic Research Associates (NERA) finds that proposed antitrust legislation in Congress could cost the economy $319 billion. The result would...
CCIA’s Statement As Progressive Democrats Release Broader Anti-Merger Legislation
March 16, 2022
Washington – Several Democrats have introduced legislation today that would preemptively block many mergers and acquisitions, in particular in the tech industry. According to news reports, the Prohi...