Trade

U.S. information-technology workers and companies now compete in a globally integrated economy where the majority of our customers, fastest growing markets and fiercest competitors are overseas. Two-thirds of our markets and an even larger share of ICT spending growth are outside our borders. While we must design our products, services and business strategies for success in the international marketplace, the foundation of that success rests on a competitive US economy that acts as the driving force for growth and innovation around the world.

ITI's trade agenda for 2010 is closely connected to a broader set of issues facing the U.S. economy and central to assuring the industry’s future as a global innovation leader: Research & Develoment and tax policy, comprehensive high-skilled immigration reform, energy efficiency, environment and sustainability, health information technology,  workforce development, and protection of intellectual property rights.

ITI member companies are active in all these areas because technology and innovation are essential variables in the calculus of spurring American competitiveness and global economic development.