WASHINGTON– July 11 2024 –The Global Data Alliance was pleased to join 50 other organizations in a letter to the White House and US government agencies and departments on future US trade policy.
Collectively, these organizations represent companies and workers across the U.S. agriculture, automotive, aerospace, chemical, consumer product, energy, finance, food & beverage, healthcare, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, media, natural resources, retail, semiconductor, technology, telecommunication, textiles, and transportation sectors.
The letter calls on trade policy leaders across the U.S. government, including in the Executive Office of the President, as well as the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, State, Treasury, and Homeland Security, to recognize that the negotiation of preferential trade agreements with U.S. allies and partners can help:
- Create economic opportunity for all Americans, including by improving access to trade and open markets for all U.S. industry sectors and workers;
- Facilitate compliant trade with trusted traders, while focusing enforcement against riskier trade;
- Ensure better labor and environmental standards;
- Advance U.S. democratic norms of governmental accountability and good governance;
- Protect innovation and IP;
- Promote cross-border access to information and data vis-à-vis allies and partners;
- Secure the U.S. investments in allies and partners that the Administration has called for; and
- Bolster our national security through strategic economic ties.
The letter also urges the Administration to advance the White House’s recognition that “America’s alliances are our greatest asset,” and that, “if we don’t write the global rules of the road for trade, cyber, [and] … climate change, they may be written by China or other nations that don’t share our values.” This also includes the Administration’s whole-of-government policy of promoting the U.S.-Allied exchange of knowledge and information to “realize the benefits of data free flows with trust based on our shared values as like-minded, democratic, open and outward looking partners.”