ITIF’s Non-Tariff Attack Tracker is a knowledge base documenting international policy assaults on leading U.S. tech firms in the form of discriminatory regulations, targeted enforcement, digital taxes, and data and infrastructure mandates that are framed as neutral domestic measures but in practice weaken U.S. firms, extract resources, and erode their global competitive advantage.

NTAs restrict U.S. firms’ ability to innovate and compete on level terms, undermining U.S. technology leadership, economic strength, and national security in the geostrategic competition with China. Congress and the Administration need to have policy tools at their disposal to identify, document, prevent, and respond to these measures.

“Non-tariff attacks” on U.S. tech companies are not just tax and regulatory hurdles—they are also eroding America’s strategic edge. Washington must identify, deter, and counter these measures in order to prevent ceding U.S. technology leadership to other nations.

A growing proliferation of antitrust regulations, content-moderation requirements, data-localization mandates, digital service taxes, exorbitant fines and fees, and local content requirements reveals a clear pattern: They are designed to unfairly burden and extract revenue from American Big Tech.

The EU’s repair policy framework, alongside similar measures in other jurisdictions, is creating a fragmented and increasingly complex compliance landscape that disproportionately burdens American tech firms. U.S. policymakers should push for international standards that reflect diverse business models rather than defaulting to the EU’s hardware-centric approach.

By any objective assessment, Canada's Online Streaming Act, which requires foreign streaming services to fork over 5 percent of their Canadian revenues, qualifies as a non-tariff attack.

Korea is unlocking high-quality data for AI but undermining that goal with a domestic server requirement that cuts developers off from global infrastructure. Targeted safeguards would do the job without the competitive cost.

Together, the transatlantic alliance can shape the rules of the digital age. Divided, neither side stands a chance.

The EU's antitrust case against Meta's WhatsApp AI integration would force the company to either compromise platform security or abandon AI features altogether, handing China a competitive advantage at the worst possible moment.