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Competitiveness Coalition Marks Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days 2025
WASHINGTON – As Amazon’s annual “Prime Big Deal Days” promotion is set to kick off tomorrow, the Competitiveness Coalition today urged regulators to reassess whether their efforts to dismantle a successful American company are actually good for consumers. A hallmark event for the more than 180 million Americans who subscribe to Prime, the two-day promotion…
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As Trial Starts for FTC’s Prime Suit, Competitiveness Coalition Asks ‘Where’s the Beef?’
WASHINGTON – Ahead of the jury trial in FTC v. Amazon.com, Inc., beginning this afternoon in Seattle, WA, Brandon Arnold, interim chairman of the Competitiveness Coalition, released the following statement asking the FTC why it continues to pursue a meritless case nearly two years after former Chair Lina Khan initially filed the complaint: “Consumers greatly…
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Competitiveness Coalition Applauds Advancement of FSGG Appropriations Bill: “Home Run for Fiscal Sanity”
WASHINGTON – This week, the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) passed their appropriations bill for fiscal year 2026, putting it before the full committee. The Competitiveness Coalition applauded this crucial first step taken by subcommittee Chair Dave Joyce (R-OH) and other members of the panel in the below statement: …
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Competitiveness Coalition Sounds The Alarm that Amazon Prime Day Could Soon Be A Thing of the Past
WASHINGTON – As more than 180 million Americans prepare to take advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day Deals, the Competitiveness Coalition today urged regulators and policymakers to rethink whether their misguided efforts to dismantle a homegrown company offering a wide-range of goods at affordable prices is truly in the best interest of consumers. Notably, Amazon’s famous…
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Competitiveness Coalition Praises President Trump For Sparing American Innovators From Canadian Digital Services Tax
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the Canadian government rescinded its punitive Digital Services Tax on American technology companies just hours before the tax, retroactive to 2022, was set to take effect after President Donald Trump stood up for our innovators and ended trade negotiations with Canada. The Competitiveness Coalition issued the below statement: “America scores a major…
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Competitiveness Coalition Warns of the Disastrous Impact of the Open App Markets Act (OAMA)
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, a group of U.S. Senators reintroduced the disastrous Open App Markets Act (OAMA), which would hurt American innovation, economic growth, and national security. First introduced in Congress in 2021, the OAMA would put users of app stores at risk of having sensitive information end up in the hands of unscrupulous actors while…
