ITI Weighs in on Trump Administration’s American AI Exports Program
WASHINGTON – Today, global tech trade association ITI shared new recommendations with the Trump Administration on its American AI Exports Program. Launched as part of President Trump’s AI Action Plan, the program will strengthen and expand the United States’ AI leadership by bolstering exports of the full stack of American AI technology.
ITI’s recommendations focus on how the program should be designed to support participation by companies of all sizes and types across the AI technology stack and offers suggestions on how the U.S. government can leverage federal support mechanisms to successfully implement the program.
“It will be important for the Commerce Department to structure the program in a way that reflects the realities of the global AI ecosystem. Successful implementation of the program may, at times, require collaboration with international partners or rely upon the integration of foreign technologies – for example, using a foreign company at one layer of the stack but using U.S. providers for the other layers of the stack,” ITI wrote in its comments.
“Ensuring the success of the American AI Exports Program – along with ensuring that broader U.S. investment, trade, supply chain, and related policy approaches are contributing to the goals of the program – will be essential to maintaining and expanding U.S. leadership across the AI tech stack,” ITI continued.
To accelerate global adoption of American AI technology as broadly as possible, ITI also recommended policymakers:
- Eliminate trade barriers that can hinder American AI exports and address unfair import tariffs;
- Provide AI exporters with certainty, consistency, and predictability with regard to export control policy and license processing;
- Leverage federal and international financing tools to support new AI sales and exports in other countries;
- Enable flexibility, promote interoperability, and ensure that a wide range of providers can participate in the program; and
- Promote consistent adoption of international standards to prevent diverging approaches globally that prevent or reduce trade opportunities.
Read the full submission here.