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Advising Policymakers
ITIF provides policy expertise to governments around the world, frequently testifying and filing public comments for official hearings, inquiries, and regulatory proceedings.
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June 15, 2026
Comments to USDA Regarding Modified Organisms Subject to the Plant Protection Act
Decades of experience without a single negative consequence attributable to an unexpected attribute of biotech-improved crops provides a robust falsification of the hazard hypothesis on which the 1986 Coordinated Framework was predicated.
June 11, 2026
Comments to UK’S Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Technology Transfer Guidelines
ITIF believes that in many important respects the Draft Guidance appears to broadly track the EU’s own revised technology transfer guidance (Revised EU Guidance) on technology pools in a largely unproblematic way but rightly declines to follow the Revised EU Guidance’s discussion of the competitive analysis involving licensing negotiation groups.
June 11, 2026
Coalition Letter Opposing the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
The bill would impose heavy restrictions on the ability of America’s leading digital platforms to engage in a wide array of common, overwhelmingly procompetitive behavior.
June 4, 2026
Comments to CMA Regarding Its Strategic Market Status Investigation Into Microsoft’s Business Software Ecosystem
Designating Microsoft’s business software under the UK's new regulatory framework contradicts the government's stated goals of driving innovation and economic growth, as over-regulating these tools would deter long-term investment and represent an disproportionate, unnecessary exercise of authority when standard competition laws already suffice.
June 4, 2026
Comments to Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Regarding Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capabilities
NextNav’s proposal for the FCC to unilaterally grant it greater rights at the expense of other users of the 900 MHz band is not in the public interest.
May 26, 2026
Comments to DOJ and FTC Regarding Making Improvements to the Premerger Notification and Report Form
While ITIF applauds the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission’s steps toward creating a better HSR form, it remains concerned about several means of expanding the scope of HSR review that would result in costs that far outweigh any benefits.
May 25, 2026
Comments to FCC Regarding Reforming Legacy Rules for an All-IP Future
Untangling and eliminating High-Cost Fund programs should be a central goal of the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to reform and recalibrate USF to match technological and economic realities.
May 22, 2026
Comments to the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, & Technology Regarding Growing Up in the Online World
The UK should resist the urge to regulate in haste. Protecting children online is essential, but protection should mean smarter design, stronger safety tools, and greater parental control, not blanket bans that remove technology from young people and choice from families.
May 21, 2026
Comments to the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Regarding Guidance on Business Collaborations
While ITIF does not support the Biden administration’s decision to withdraw and not replace the 2000 Guidelines, now, a quarter century after their issuance, it is long past time for renewed competitor collaboration guidelines.
May 21, 2026
Comments to FCC Regarding the State of Competition in the Communications Marketplace
The Commission should continue its pattern of deregulation for consumer benefits in the video market, rather than punting modern consumer preference back into twentieth century regulatory frameworks.
