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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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Retaliatory Tariffs Could Cut US ITA Exports by $56 Billion
An ITIF model shows how foreign retaliation to tariffs announced by the Trump administration would reduce U.S. exports of the advance manufactured goods covered under the WTO’s Information Technology Agreement.
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.
More Publications and Events
July 3, 2025|Events
US-Korea Trade at a Crossroads: How Should Korea Respond to Trump-Era Tariff Negotiations?
Join ITIF’s Center for Korean Innovation and Competitiveness for a high-level discussion featuring trade experts, regulatory analysts, and U.S.–Korea watchers from both sides of the Pacific.
June 30, 2025|Reports & Briefings
How America’s Trading Partners Are Reacting to US Tariffs
Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance (GTIPA) members from 17 countries analyzed how their economies are reacting to U.S. tariffs. Many countries are seeking to support their local producers and establish trade arrangements that are less reliant on the United States.
June 30, 2025|Blogs
If They Told You Wolverines Would Make Good House Pets, Prime Minister, Would You Believe Them?
If the Starmer government thinks for one minute that the PRC will allow the UK to expand exports of anything with any real strategic importance, it is gravely mistaken. It’s time for competitive realism.
June 29, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
How Should Korea Negotiate With Trump Over Trade?
For Trump, it’s a new world and Korean President Lee Jae Myung and his administration needs to treat it as such by negotiating a new deal that preserves Korean market access to America in exchange for real concessions on what at the end of the day are relatively minor things for Korean economic competitiveness.
June 20, 2025|Blogs
German State Prioritizes Politics Over Practical Technology Solutions
Schleswig-Holstein’s move to drop Microsoft for open-source tools reflects costly digital protectionism driven by politics, not practicality. EU governments should focus on evidence-based tech procurement over nationalist agendas.
June 12, 2025|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles
Trump Will Lose the Trade War
Multifront conflicts have never ended well for the countries that provoked them.
June 10, 2025|Events
Defending US Technology Leadership From Nontariff Attacks
Watch ITIF’s Aegis Project for Defending U.S. Technology Leadership's webinar discussion featuring expert panelists as they examine the growing trend of nontariff attacks on American technology companies and exploring ways U.S. policymakers can respond.
May 28, 2025|Events
Creative Insecurity: Can Trump’s Trade Threats Jolt Canada Into Action?
Watch now for a virtual panel discussion from ITIF’s Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness. The webinar featured top experts as they explored whether growing external pressures might serve as a catalyst for renewed policy ambition in Canada’s innovation ecosystem.
May 26, 2025|Presentations
America's Deindustrialization, Trade War, and Tariffs
Rodrigo Balbontin outlines the decline of U.S. manufacturing, the strategic response to China's rise, and implications of the U.S.'s current trade policy, particularly under a possible second Trump administration at an event hosted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), titled Seizing the Shift: Navigating Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs.
May 21, 2025|Reports & Briefings
Short-Circuited: How Semiconductor Tariffs Would Harm the U.S. Economy and Digital Industry Leadership
Imposing blanket tariffs on U.S. semiconductor imports would imperil U.S. leadership across a broad range of digital and nondigital industries while significantly decreasing U.S. economic growth, raising prices, and jeopardizing broader U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.
