Trade Agreements
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Digital Trade Rules Benefit Every Sector of the U.S. Economy
Strong digital rules are critical to growth, innovation, and hiring, from autos to agriculture and manufacturing to financial services.
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The U.S. must work with allies and partners to push forward a vision for digital trade that can secure opportunities for American workers, small businesses, services industries, and others.
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The world is charging ahead in pursuit of new market-opening trade agreements, but in recent years Washington policymakers have been sitting on the sidelines. Here is why America must lead on trade.
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As other nations race to achieve their own market-opening trade deals, the United States cannot be left behind. The U.S. Chamber is dedicated to pursuing new trade and investment agreements that uphold and improve our standard of living and our standing in the world. Trade agreements must establish high standards, protect American innovation, and be fully enforceable.
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India and Africa offer relatively untapped markets and unique trade opportunities for U.S. businesses.
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Latest Content
This Coalition letter was sent to the Members of the United States Congress, opposing inclusion of the “Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act of 2021” in the Bipartisan Innovation Act.
No two other regions in the world are as deeply integrated as the U.S. and Europe.
2021 was a record year for trade in America. Both exports and imports saw the highest year-over-year growth rates ever as they bounced back from pandemic-related drops in 2020.
A digital trade agreement is an opportunity to negotiate binding commitments to support a competitive global digital economy. The U.S. Chamber’s Digital Trade Priorities lay out widely supported principles to guide the negotiation of such an agreement.
How U.S. Workers and Companies Can Benefit from a Digital Trade Agreement
This Hill letter was sent to Members of the United States Senate supporting the nomination of Reta Jo Lewis to serve as President and Chair of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
This Hill letter was sent to the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, on H.R. 4521, the "America COMPETES Act."
The U.S. Chamber submitted comments as input for the recently launched U.S. International Trade Commission investigation into “Distributional Effects of Trade and Trade Policy on U.S. Workers."