Centers of Excellence

The Competition and Market Regulation Center champions a competitive marketplace and effective consumer safeguards.

The center’s experts specialize in antitrust law, merger policy, and regulations impacting competition across various sectors. They actively counter efforts by government to impose price controls and micromanage business decisions.

The team also provides members with essential resources, including the latest research, thorough analysis, and current data on competition and consumer protection law trends. 

The Energy, Environment, Climate, and Sustainability Center works with businesses from all industries to advance strategies and policies for abundant and affordable energy, environmental protection, climate change solutions, and continuous improvement in sustainability.

Given the interconnectedness of these issues, the Chamber is uniquely positioned to harness a diverse range of business voices to shape and advance policies that are effective, workable, and, most importantly, boost economic growth and improve the environment.

The Financial Policy and Corporate Governance Center advocates for policies that support diverse, transparent, and innovative financial markets that are critical to helping businesses from Main Street to global corporations expand and succeed.

The center’s capital markets team engages with policymakers and regulatory agencies, such as the U.S. Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Reserve, and international bodies, on policies that impact the availability and cost of capital as well as corporate reporting and systemic risk regulations.

The center’s work also includes issues related to corporate governance, ranging from policies impacting board, shareholder and management operations to auditing and accounting standards.

The Health Care Center provides opportunities for companies across the health sector and employer sponsors of health care coverage to collaborate on public policy issues.

Together, they work to advance policies that promote innovation, limit government micromanagement, and support a robust private sector health ecosystem. This includes a strong emphasis on supporting the adoption of cutting-edge technology and a value-based approach to payments.

The center also leads initiatives to educate policymakers and the public on the value of innovations in the health care sector and the economic contributions of major industry subsectors, creating a more balanced framework for policy discussions.

The Intellectual Property and Brand Protection Center champions robust intellectual property (IP) standards necessary to drive innovation and creativity.

By advocating for strong patents, trademarks, and copyrights domestically and internationally, the center helps businesses create jobs, save lives, and foster economic and cultural prosperity.

The center’s work includes helping the U.S. and foreign governments strengthen their legal IP protections; opposing policies that erode the value of IP, including through price controls; and coordinating efforts between the private sector and government to reduce trade in counterfeit goods.

The International Policy and Trade Center represents U.S. business interests abroad, helping companies navigate geopolitical risks and seize market opportunities.

The U.S. Chamber promotes open and competitive markets worldwide. The International Policy and Trade Center ensures that American businesses’ voices influence critical policy discussions, such as in U.S.-China trade relations and European regulations.

The center connects members with influential global leaders through high-level events, executive roundtables, and strategic business delegations. Each year, it features nearly 30 heads of state and 250 high-ranking officials at Chamber-hosted programs in Washington, D.C., and abroad. These relationships provide the insights and access needed to thrive in international markets.

The Labor and Workforce Center leads the Chamber’s advocacy on employment policies, labor relations issues, immigration, and employee benefits matters.

The center’s team directly engages Congress and federal agencies, including the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, to advocate for policy approaches that reflect the challenges and opportunities of our modern economy.

As states and municipal governments have increasingly begun imposing their own workforce rules, the center has become more active at the state and local levels.

The team also focuses on another pressing issue for American businesses—addressing the worker shortage crisis by connecting qualified employees with the positions that companies need to fill.

The U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) advocates for civil justice reform to support a fair legal system that promotes economic growth and opportunity at the state, federal, and global levels.

At the federal level, ILR engages with members of Congress and agency officials to advance legislation and regulatory reforms that protect the integrity of America’s legal system and uphold the rule of law. This involves advocating for changes in tort law, constraining the plaintiffs’ bar, reining in third-party litigation funding, and other critical areas for business.

ILR also leads major state legal reform initiatives through a national network of state chambers of commerce and civil justice groups. Internationally, its advocacy advances legal reform in the European Union and fights the export of the U.S. litigation culture. 

The institute complements its work with leading expert policy and economic research and voter education programs while engaging in media relations and strategic communications to ensure that these issues receive the attention they deserve.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center is the leading defender of free enterprise in the nation’s courts. Staffed by an all-star team of experienced in-house attorneys, the center works closely with members to support their litigation priorities.

As the U.S. Chamber’s litigation arm, the center actively represents the business community in litigation, filing over 220 amicus briefs annually in state and federal courts. Facing an unprecedented regulatory onslaught, it initiates lawsuits to challenge overregulation by federal and state governments, with over two dozen lawsuits pending.

The Litigation Center’s moot court program prepares advocates for oral arguments in cases impacting the business community. Moot court panelists include top-flight appellate lawyers who have argued in appellate courts nationwide, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

The National Security: Defense, Cyber, and Space Center advances policies vitally important to companies in the defense and space industries while helping all businesses navigate constantly evolving cyber threats and cyber policy debates.

The center’s staff engages with policymakers in Congress, DoD, NASA, national security agencies, and international governments. Their legal and technical experts participate in developing regulations and industry standards, ensuring that business has a seat at the table.

Further, the center facilitates opportunities for companies to directly engage with federal and foreign policymakers and convenes industry-only gatherings for companies to learn from each other.

The Tax and Economy Center opposes discriminatory taxes and advances pro-growth tax policy at the federal, state, and international levels. It also helps members understand broader economic trends and how public policy decisions will impact the economy.

The center’s tax team engages directly with policymakers and actively participates in the regulatory process to shape policy. This includes protecting America’s competitive business tax rates, which are at risk of expiring if action is not taken to protect business interests as the 2025 tax cliff approaches.

Harnessing the Chamber’s proprietary data, surveys, econometric capabilities, sector-specific studies, and access to leading economists, the center’s economic team helps shape the debate around a wide variety of public policies.

The Technology and Innovation Center brings together technology companies and end users across industries to advance policies that support the responsible development and deployment of innovative technologies.

The center advocates for uniform, nondiscriminatory public policies on issues ranging from data privacy, AI, and automation to autonomous vehicles that reflect the real-world state of technology and business practices.

The Technology and Innovation Center’s work is vital in demonstrating to policymakers how technology empowers businesses of all sizes to compete globally, tackle society’s most pressing issues, and inspire greater community and economic participation.

The Transportation, Infrastructure, and Supply Chain Center advances policies to expand and modernize the nation’s infrastructure, improve supply chains, and promote efficient transportation networks free from excessive government regulation.

The center’s policy experts engage with the administration, Congress, and state leaders on legislative and regulatory advocacy, including the regular infrastructure authorization and funding bills.

Its membership encompasses builders, carriers, and end users  of America’s transportation and infrastructure system. The center brings together the private sector with government officials to address immediate and long-term challenges, including supply chain and labor disruptions, obstacles to accelerating infrastructure investments, and the effects of various regulatory requirements.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation builds stronger communities by harnessing the power of business to create solutions for communities across the United States and worldwide.

Their work includes developing solutions for major issues, such as advancing global resilience to disasters, solving workforce challenges, elevating civics as a national priority, and connecting veterans to meaningful careers.

Together, the Foundation partners with businesses of all sizes, nonprofits, governments, and state and local chambers to shape and execute smart solutions to build stronger communities.