Always Be Filing: ACT | The App Association Filing Activity for March 2025
Throughout the year, our policy team submits filings with government bodies worldwide to advocate for a regulatory environment that inspires and rewards innovation. From issues around regulating artificial intelligence to digital trade, our team is ACTive on a wide range of topics that could have a positive or negative impact on our small business members driving the app economy. Below is a roundup of our filings from around the globe this past month. Title: Comments of ACT | The App [...]
What’s the FTC’s Tech Antitrust Vision?
Observing all of the policy ordnance leaping from the previous Administration’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC), one has a sense of its relentless ideological certainty. And yet, it is difficult to identify from it a unified or tangible FTC vision for the ideal state of competition in digital markets. What should operators of curated online marketplaces (COMs) and other digital market competitors be doing that would be more pro-competitive and better for consumers? Over the past four years, the FTC [...]
Statement from ACT | The App Association on United States Trade Representative’s Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
In response to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s 2025 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, ACT | The App Association released the following statement: ACT | The App Association appreciates the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) thorough review of the key obstacles U.S. companies encounter in foreign markets, which appropriately includes a range of barriers faced by U.S. small businesses. The National Trade Estimate provides a roadmap for enforcement priorities and a guide for shaping future [...]