USCIB stands ready in 2026 to help US companies seize opportunities and manage risks in an uncertain global landscape. Deregulation, technological innovation, and emerging global tax alignment promise increased economic productivity while immigration, trade, and industrial policies strain supply chains, access to critical minerals, labor markets, and longstanding alliances. Conflicts and strategic rivalries are polarizing the global economy, adding uncertainty and costs to doing business.
USCIB will champion a pro-growth agenda, ameliorating tariff turbulence, easing compliance complexity, removing regulatory overreach, combating illicit trade, and narrowing national security measures. We will promote a reformed and functional rules-based trading system that facilitates trade and addresses effectively the challenges of the 21st century, including distortions from non-market economy practices. Renewal of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), stability in US-China relations, and effective trade enforcement will also remain top priorities to safeguard stable and resilient supply chains for companies. We will oppose burdensome reporting requirements that harm US companies.
Noting the economic importance and transformative nature of technology, we will drive policies that advance US leadership on digital innovation and unleash the potential of artificial intelligence in a risk-based, coordinated, and inclusive way. We will shape strategies for upskilling and workforce transition, delivering good jobs and a talent pool for the future. We will continue to advocate for the free flow of data with trust, interoperability, and non-discrimination, as well as for the legal architecture and intellectual property protections that underpin innovative industries.
Reliable and affordable energy is critical to AI and digital innovation used in all sectors of the US economy. USCIB will advance reforms to ensure sufficient energy supplies, working with global affiliates to safeguard investments and regulatory cohesion. We will engage in the OECD Critical Minerals Action Plan and other coordinated strategies to diversify supply chains and facilitate circularity for critical minerals, catalysts for clean energy and advanced electronics. We will advocate for US business interests in environmental forums including the global instrument on plastics pollution.
Recognizing the challenging and often politically charged environment surrounding the taxation of multinational companies, USCIB will continue to support domestic and multilateral efforts to promote globally consistent standards for the fair allocation of taxing rights. We will press for science-based policymaking across sectors, ensuring global policies impacting agriculture and health remain safe, credible, and grounded in empirical evidence. We will lead efforts to develop effective and growth-enabling global standards on labor, employment, human rights, responsible business conduct, and due diligence, and will help secure successful outcomes in the negotiations of legally binding instruments such as the ILO Standard on the Platform Economy and the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights.
All the while, we will continue to showcase US engagement in international institutions as imperative to an “America First” approach to global challenges, ensuring US values shape the rules, standards, and guidelines that govern business operations in global markets.
With more than 80 years of global business leadership, USCIB remains unmatched in our ability to drive results in the global arena.
Trade & Investment
Promote open markets and a reformed rules-based trading system that can manage effectively 21st century trade issues. Advocate for trade liberalization, transparent, predictable, and administrable tariffs, and associated customs policies. Press for USMCA renewal, high standard trade agreements that open markets and diversify supply chains; a level playing field; continued strategic economic engagement with China; free flow of data and strong digital trade rules; intellectual property protections; investor safeguards; and trade enforcement.
International Tax Policy
Continue to be the leading voice for business for the promotion of sound international tax policy and in particular the development of predictable and globally accepted rules for the fair allocation of global taxing rights. We will accomplish this using our direct voice at the OECD and the UN as well as through effective stakeholder engagement at the US Treasury, Congress, the EU, and other relevant institutions.
Digital
Promote the responsible expansion of advanced technologies such as AI, quantum, and space related technology. Advocate for regulatory frameworks that foster innovation and shape global approaches to protect privacy, cybersecurity, enhance connectivity, and advance the multistakeholder approach to open and inclusive Internet governance.
Environment and International Product Policy
Advance member interests across core international environmental policy negotiations, with special focus on UN Climate COP31, UN Biodiversity COP17, and the ongoing process to develop an international legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. In 2026, our focus is on ensuring continued US leadership on environmental policy through engagement on topics such as just transition, climate and trade, energy access and security, chemicals, critical minerals, waste management, and the first global review of the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework.
Corporate Citizenship and Labor
Advance effective, implementable, and growth-conducive global policies and standards pertaining to labor, employment, supply chains, human rights, responsible business conduct, and due diligence. Ensure successful outcomes in the negotiations of legally binding instruments such as the ILO Standard on the Platform Economy and the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights.
Food and Agriculture
Champion science-based policymaking and innovation to advance global food security and regenerative agriculture; advance resilient and equitable supply chains; monitor and address regulatory requirements and trade barriers; champion investment in transformative technologies and practices that enhance productivity and sustainability.
Health
Advocate business priorities in AI and digital health innovation, highlighting the significance of mental health wellbeing; cover the nexus of cross cutting issues in this sector linked with the environment and sustainable practices; emphasize the importance of resilient health systems, addressing workforce challenges, preparing for future pandemics, monitoring the societal impacts of NCDs, and implementing appropriate safeguards on health data sharing.
Competition
Promote sound competition enforcement and procedures; confront antitrust overreach and overregulation; advance industry interests on the implementation of the Trump Administration’s competition agenda; explore the application of cross-cutting issues such as AI and labor.
Cross-Cutting Issues
Deliver technical advice and practical solutions for an array of multi-issue and multi-forum topics, such as:
- Trade and Labor, including forced labor policies, the USMCA rapid response mechanism, compliance and enforcement.
- Trade and Environment, through WTO, OECD, APEC, UNFCCC and other forums while confronting counter-productive unilateral measures, such as EU CBAM.
- Critical Minerals, through the OECD and other forums, addressing access to essential materials; investment incentives and safeguards; human-rights and supply-chain reporting requirements; customs and tax treatment; environmental and biodiversity permitting; national security considerations.
- Consumer Policy, global standards that impact online scams, fraudulent reviews, product safety, and packaging.
- Regulatory Reforms, ameliorating regulations, reporting requirements and non-tariff measures that impact US supply chains.
- OECD Accession Process, promoting market liberalization in OECD candidates Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, and Thailand.
- APEC and G20/B20 in 2026, across customs, trade facilitation, digital/AI, trade, agriculture, health, labor, and chemicals.
