Press Releases

Following the release of the 2025 Notorious Markets List by the U.S. Trade Representative, an annual report highlighting marketplaces linked to large-scale copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting, ITIF released the following statements.

South Korea’s decision to allow the conditional export of 1:5,000-scale geospatial data is a constructive step toward aligning its data governance framework with the realities of global digital competition.

Amid Anthropic’s dispute with the Pentagon over the use of its AI systems, a new survey commissioned by ITIF finds that 67 percent of Americans say private tech companies have a responsibility to set limits on how their products are used, even when the government disagrees. A further 53 percent say companies should have the right to restrict their AI from applications such as domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

Following President Trump’s State of the Union announcement of a “Rate Payer Protection Pledge,” which calls on major tech companies to build their own power plants to support AI data centers, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Senior Policy Manager Hodan Omaar.

Following President Trump’s State of the Union announcement of a “Rate Payer Protection Pledge,” which calls on major tech companies to build their own power plants to support AI data centers, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement.

Stephen Ezell says any move to Sections 301, 122, or 232 should focus on narrow enforcement against unfair practices, not across-the-board tariffs.

Warren and Hawley are right to crack down on powerful drug middlemen, but they risk kneecapping the very biopharmaceutical innovators who develop the medicines patients depend on.

The European Commission’s latest antitrust action against Meta over access to WhatsApp undermines transatlantic leadership in AI. The lawsuit rests on an implausible notion of dominance, ignores clear procompetitive justifications, and risks benefiting China.

While U.S.-based firms still lead in advanced industry research and development, size- and wage-adjusted data show China-based firms are rapidly closing the gap, a shift that threatens America’s techno-economic leadership and industrial strength absent stronger policy support.

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.