WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust is holding a hearing to examine how foreign antitrust laws, like Europe’s Digital Markets Act, are being used to target and undermine American businesses.
NetChoice submitted a comment for the record to the committee, outlining our concerns with some U.S. proposals that mirror Europe’s failed, anti-American approach.
“NetChoice applauds the Committee’s focus on stopping Europe’s anti-American antitrust models from spreading around the world,” said Zach Lilly, NetChoice Director of Government Affairs.
“Defenders of U.S. markets and tradition should react with deep concern that the EU has not only launched a war on American businesses within its own borders but has provided countries around the world with a blueprint for similar assaults. Europe’s anti-American crusade has been a disaster for its consumers and a political failure, drawing the ire of the Trump administration. The Committee’s leadership on this important issue is timely and necessary.”
Lilly continued: “Unfortunately, some American politicians are working to import these failed European policies to America. While working to stop these bad ideas from taking root abroad, lawmakers must also feel comfortable rejecting them at home.”
Read NetChoice’s comment for the record here.
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