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Senator Warren, Lawmakers Reiterate Concern over Big Tech Pushing Digital Trade Rules that Conflict with Biden Competition Agenda and Pending Legislation

Press Release

Date: April 24, 2023
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Trade Economy and Fiscal

"While we appreciate your commitment that digital trade negotiations will not conflict with the federal government's active work on tech policy, we remain concerned that Big Tech companies are advocating for an approach to digital trade that will do just that.

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It is not "trade discrimination' for the U.S. government or any of our trading partners to regulate Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon to protect online competition, as tech industry groups have claimed --it is common sense, and trade-pact terms should in no way inhibit it.

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An artificial deadline must not come before ensuring that the deal fulfills the Biden Administration's commitments to promote competition in the economy, to protect digital privacy, and to advance a worker-centered trade policy. If trade agreements contain rules that allow tech companies to plead "illegal trade discrimination' to avoid accountability for monopolistic and discriminatory behavior, not only will personal privacy and consumers' trust in the Internet be threatened, but the United States' economic and national security as well."


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