Software Alliance Urges Congress To Pass Trade Promotion Authority

BSA/The Software Alliance (BSA) urged the leadership of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee to pass Trade Promotion Authority legislation, which would simplify the process for congressional approval of trade agreements. “Unfortunately, we are seeing a growing number of countries enacting measures that restrict cross-border data flows or require data processing to occur within the nation’s borders,” BSA said in a letter to the committees Friday. “We need trade agreements to address these market access restrictions on digital commerce directly,” it said. BSA members include Adobe, Apple, Dell and Microsoft.