<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3" class=""><i class="">Letter below…</i></font></div><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">The Honorable Joseph R. Biden <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">President of the United States of America<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">The White House <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Washington, DC 20500 <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 7in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">November 1, 2023<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Dear President Biden, <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" class=""></span><div class="WordSection2" style="page: WordSection2;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">We appreciate your efforts to counter Big Tech abuses and protect all Americans’ privacy and the safety of our children online, ensure gig workers’ labor rights, and fight for fair and competitive marketplaces free of monopoly predation. We are a diverse set of organizations that reflect the myriad ways in which all Americans are affected by the digital economy.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">We are writing today to express our appreciation for your administration’s efforts to ensure that any “digital trade” provisions of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international commercial agreements are consistent with these goals. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">The appointment of U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to your Competition Council is welcome news. Ambassador Tai has achieved important progress in ensuring that your new worker-centered trade policy supports and promotes the goals and priorities of your all-of-government competition policy, 2023 State of the Union speech’s focus on privacy and data security, and the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Specifically, we thank you for suspending negotiations on the IPEF “digital trade” terms that thwart privacy, civil rights and liberties, anti-monopoly, and gig worker safeguards. And for withdrawing U.S. support for such terms in the context of the WTO’s Joint Statement Initiative on E-Commerce. Your exclusion of the most threatening digital provisions that Big Tech interests convinced the Trump administration to include in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement helps to promote your competition, privacy, and other digital goals for consumers, workers and entrepreneurs that we support.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; break-before: page;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; break-before: page;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Unsurprisingly, some Big Tech lobbyists and their allies at the Chamber of Commerce are not happy. They hoped to commandeer IPEF negotiations, which will set rules binding countries representing 40% of the world economy, and WTO negotiations, to impose “digital trade” terms to constrain privacy, gig worker, anti-monopoly and AI accountability policy. This form of international preemption, which Big Tech interests are also pushing at other negotiating venues, would undermine your agencies’ and Congress’ efforts to remedy threats that an unregulated digital sphere poses to workers, consumers, competing businesses, and democracy itself.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">The seriousness of these problems is reflected in the polling data that show Americans across the political spectrum agree with you and with us: The few dominant Big Tech firms that control broad swaths of our economy and daily lives require urgent oversight. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">We appreciate USTR Tai’s comments on the need to develop a new U.S. approach to “digital trade” that respects those in Congress and administration agencies now working to develop U.S. privacy, tech anti-monopoly, AI, gig worker, and other digital policies. We support continued involvement by the administration agencies responsible for enforcement of privacy and competition policies in the process of designing this new U.S. policy. We support a new approach that safeguards the policy space needed to effectively regulate Big Tech that is consistently promoted and achieved by the United States in all trade negotiations.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Thank you for your leadership in improving our trade rules so that they promote rather than undermine the pro-worker, anti-monopoly, pro-consumer-privacy and anti-online-discrimination goals for the digital sphere that we share with you. We hope we can work with your administration to help secure these important gains for the American public.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Sincerely, <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7pt; color: windowtext;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Accountable Tech <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">AI Now Institute <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">American Economic Liberties Project<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Citizens Trade Campaign <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Communications Workers of America<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Demand Progress <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Electronic Privacy Information Center<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">International Brotherhood of Teamsters<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Public Citizen <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Rethink Trade <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Tech Oversight Project <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Trade Justice Education Fund <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">United Steelworkers <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">CC: Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(47, 84, 150);" class=""> </span></b></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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