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Growing the innovation economy requires tight and deep integration of global markets—but with the critical caveat that this integration must come with strong commitments to openness and robust, market-oriented national competitiveness policies, not protectionist market distortions. ITIF's research focuses on how to promote robust trade, especially in innovation-based industries, and curb the spread of innovation mercantilism in all its forms.
Vice President, Global Innovation Policy, and Director, Center for Life Sciences Innovation
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
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Toward Globalization 2.0: A New Trade Policy Framework for Advanced-Industry Leadership and National Power
Globalization 1.0 has failed, but protectionist autarky cannot be its replacement. Instead, it is past time to craft a new kind of globalization that advances U.S. interests in key industries and prevents China from becoming the dominant techno-economic power.
The Trade Imbalance Index: Where the Trump Administration Should Take Action to Address Trade Distortions
As the Trump administration seeks to rebalance America’s trade relationships, it should focus the most attention on countries where U.S. industries face the worst trade distortions and imbalances, and where the greatest gains can be achieved for the U.S. economy. China, India, and the European Union top that list.
Go to the Mattresses: It’s Time to Reset U.S.-EU Tech and Trade Relations
In its bid for tech sovereignty, the EU has been aggressively targeting U.S. firms and industries with unfair protectionist policies. This cannot stand. To move forward into a new era of deeper transatlantic trade integration, America must first demand a level playing field.
Testimony to the US House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee: Protecting American Innovation by Establishing and Enforcing Strong Digital Trade Rules
Congress needs to make clear that it expects other nations to cease and desist, while at the same time holding whoever is in the White House to high standards of more strongly incorporating digital issues into a robust trade defense strategy.
How Expanding the Information Technology Agreement to an “ITA-3” Would Bolster Nations’ Economic Growth
Completing a second expansion of the Information Technology Agreement (an “ITA-3”) could bring more than 400 unique ICT products under the ITA’s tariff-eliminating framework, which would add more than $750 billion to the global economy over 10 years.
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April 22, 2025|Events
How The Rise of Chinese E-Commerce Platforms Will Impact the U.S.
Please join ITIF for a timely discussion with experts on e-commerce regulation, logistics, and policy to explore the growth of Chinese e-commerce platforms, their impact on U.S. businesses and consumers, and how policymakers and industry leaders should respond.
April 16, 2025|Blogs
Trump Trade Negotiations: Embrace Strategic Trade, Not Autarky
The Trump administration will have to make a choice: Demand the removal of all foreign trade barriers or be strategic and focus on eliminating those critical to America’s techno-economic future.
April 15, 2025|Blogs
Low Tariffs Aren’t Enough: Korea Should Remove Its Trade Barriers With the United States
South Korea faces a strategic decision: Address persistent trade asymmetries, or risk straining its long-standing alliance with the United States and lose autonomy vis-à-vis China. What’s needed is a genuine reset—one grounded in open trade and closer coordination with Washington to counter mercantilist practices.
April 14, 2025|Podcasts
A Conversation With Harry S. Truman
In this special episode of the Trade War Podcast from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, host Stan McCoy recontextualizes a 1947 speech by President Harry Truman in interview format.
April 14, 2025|Blogs
Will Xi’s Gamble Not Pay Off?
Xi Jinping's accelerated timeline to dominate global tech-based industries appears to be a strategic miscalculation. The coming years will reveal whether China can adapt its approach or suffer the consequences of this high-stakes gamble.
April 14, 2025|Blogs
America’s Confederation of Trade Policy Dunces
The lurch from naïve free trade to self-defeating trade wars makes it appear that there is no place in between. But this is not the case.
April 9, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Globalists Brought Trump’s Trade Revolution on Themselves
Trump’s tariff revolution on Liberation Day was the wrong reaction, but it’s still important to understand the motivation for his action. Those in the current globalist establishment need to stop defending the last phase of their failed project, admit there are grave flaws in the international trade regime, and get on board with fixing its problems.
April 7, 2025|Blogs
Fact of the Week: A 10 Percent Increase in the Effective U.S. Tariff Rate Could Lead to an Inflation Increase of up to 1.2 Percent
Experts suggest that increasing the U.S. effective tariff rate by 10 percentage points will increase inflation by up to 1.2 percent.
April 7, 2025|Podcasts
Tax Attacks! With Giammarco Cottani
In this episode of the Trade War Podcast, host Stan McCoy from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is joined by international tax expert Giammarco Cottani.
April 4, 2025|Blogs
Liberation Day Tariffs Miss the Real Target: China
The Trump administration’s "Liberation Day" tariffs foolishly alienate allies instead of strategically targeting China, inadvertently weakening U.S. competitiveness and handing a win to Beijing.
