The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a new report arguing that large technology companies are making invaluable contributions to our quality of life during the pandemic, but threats to break them apart using antitrust regulations would ultimately harm consumers by impeding innovations.

The Jones Act requires any ship traveling between two U.S. points to be U.S.-manufactured, -owned, -flagged, and -crewed. 

CEI Senior Fellow Mario Loyola explains how eliminating The Jones Act, a 100 year old protectionist law regulating the American shipbuilding industry, can help our economy recover.

President Trump on Thursday announced he will reimpose 10 percent aluminum tariffs against Canada. 

President Trump on Thursday announced he will reimpose 10 percent aluminum tariffs against Canada. 

There are a lot to important reforms keep track of, so we put together an infographic that collects in one place the most urgent #NeverNeeded regulations that need reform.

Trade barriers are harming both priorities. This paper contains three proposals that Congress and the Trump administration can enact immediately to lift trade barriers.

President Trump’s steel tariffs were intended to boost U.S. manufacturing. They backfired to the point where a group of steel-using industries sued to stop the tariffs. 

The event featured remarks by Paul Ray, Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is calling for the Trump Administration to defund the International Agency for Research on Cancer. A division of the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States funds IARC via National Institutes of Health grants. 

In a new paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), senior fellow Ben Lieberman makes the case that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should approve the waivers and that Congress should legislatively sunset the program.

CEI’s annual survey of the size and scope of the federal regulatory burden. The report takes on special importance, given regulation’s starring role in the coronavirus response

"The CDC devolved into an agency incapable of adequately addressing the serious threat posed by infectious disease, particularly novel diseases for which there is little information about risk, spread, and treatment." -Michelle Minton

"Regulations are a big obstacle in fighting the coronavirus. They are also a major obstacle to economic recovery." -Wayne Crews & Ryan Young

"It is no surprise that the only bipartisan action Congress is able to take is spending trillions of taxpayer dollars, even though several deregulatory measures would help our recovery immediately" -Wayne Crews

"The CDC devolved into an agency incapable of adequately addressing the serious threat posed by infectious disease, particularly novel diseases for which there is little information about risk, spread, and treatment." -Michelle Minton

"An economy as healthy as possible, one unencumbered by needless regulation, is one that will be more resilient in the face of the next crisis; and with luck, one more resistant to the flash policy of spendulus." - Wayne Crews

"Over the past month, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and others have pointed to #NeverNeeded regulations that have served no purpose for years and are now hindering our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the economic dislocation that enforced social distancing has caused." -John Berlau

"Not every regulation on the books is directly harming the COVID-19 response. There are a lot of other regulations that need reform, but the #NeverNeeded set deserves urgent action." -Ryan Young

“If Congress can spend to stimulate, Washington can also deregulate to stimulate,” read the blueprint drawn up by regulatory expert Clyde Wayne Crews, the vice president for policy and a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Direct government aid won’t be enough to get the country past this health and economic catastrophe, argued Iain Murray, vice president for strategy and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “We must get rid of unneeded regulations that impede recovery,” he said in releasing a report on regulations that could be cut or modified.

“Many regulations have proven to hinder or delay appropriate policy responses. Other regulations are or were making things worse than they otherwise would be. In many cases, it is now clear that these regulations were never needed, or that whatever justification they once had has been superseded,” said a new report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute shared with Secrets.

The U.S. government's $2 trillion relief package is an example of short-term “flash policy” at its worst. The coronavirus pandemic needs a long-term policy response.​ Tweet your ideas and share with CEI staff.

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