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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.
More Publications and Events
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 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.
April 4, 2025|Blogs
Liberation Day: Explaining Trump’s Tariffs
In the Trumpian trade worldview, tariffs are not just a necessary economic tool to correct foreign nations seen as "cheating," but a patriotic mission to restore America’s economic sovereignty and punish the disloyal globalists who, in their eyes, have betrayed the nation.
April 4, 2025|Blogs
Sure, Trade Deficits Matter. But They’re Not the Only Thing
The fetishization of goods trade deficits in President Trump’s April 2 tariff announcement does a disservice to the many other pressing trade issues impacting the broader U.S. economy.
April 3, 2025|Events
From Rejection to Reform: Rethinking Globalization
Watch now for ITIF's hybrid event presenting key findings from a significant report and a panel of distinguished trade policy experts. Speakers examined the failures of the last phase of globalization, the economic and policy dead ends caused by recent anti-globalization trends, and the principles and policies needed to shape a “Globalization 2.0” framework.
April 3, 2025|Press Releases
Executive Order on De Minimis Disrupts U.S. Supply Chains, but Advances Fairer E-Commerce, Says ITIF
Following President Trump’s executive order ending the de minimis loophole, ITIF released the following statement from Policy Analyst Eli Clemens.
April 2, 2025|Reports & Briefings
How China’s State-Backed E-Commerce Platforms Threaten American Consumers and U.S. Technology Leadership
China’s industrial strategy calls for gaining market share in e-commerce to expand its global influence, financial footprint, and ability to compete in AI. Policymakers should act now to avoid leaving U.S. platforms at a structural disadvantage and exposing U.S. consumers to harm.
March 31, 2025|Blogs
Why Canada Must Keep Talking to Trump’s America
Canada’s path forward requires becoming a more productive trading nation that is less reliant on external forces and more capable of turning ambition into economic power. Walking away from the most consequential trade conversation of the next decade won’t get Canada there. It has room to negotiate with the U.S. and should use that leverage to secure the full and permanent removal of tariffs.
March 24, 2025|Blogs
Fact of the Week: Analysts Have Downgraded Global GDP Growth Projections for 2025 to 3.1 Percent
The OECD now expects global GDP to grow by 3.1 percent this year, reduced from the previous projection of 3.3 percent in light of heightened trade barriers and political uncertainty.
March 24, 2025|Blogs
Advanced Technology Products Rely on Strong Trade Partnerships
America’s innovation economy depends on strong trade alliances—not trade wars—to sustain growth and secure leadership in advanced technology exports.
