What: The Office of Advocacy will hold a Small Business Roundtable seeking feedback on regulations to repeal or reform that are anti-competitive on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 1:00pm to 3:00pm ET on the Microsoft Teams platform.
Why: The Department of Justice’s Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force is seeking feedback to eliminate anti-competitive state and federal laws and regulations that undermine free market competition and harm consumers, workers, and small businesses. The Task Force is particularly interested in anti-competitive laws and regulations in areas that have the greatest impact on American households, including, but not limited to housing, transportation, food and agriculture, healthcare, and energy.
- The public will have 60 days to submit comments on the DOJ Task Force at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/ATR-2025-0001 (Docket No. ATR-2025-0001), no later than May 26, 2025.
The Federal Trade Commission’s Reducing Anti-Competitive Barriers Request for Information is seeking feedback on regulations that have the effect of reducing competition, entrepreneurship, and innovation, and invites members of the public, including consumers, workers, businesses, start-ups, potential market entrants, investors, and academics to comment.
- The public will have 60 days to submit comments on the FTC Request at https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2025-0028-0001 (Docket No. FTC-2025-0028-0001), no later than May 27, 2025.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (ET)
Meeting Platform: Microsoft Teams
The Office of Advocacy takes its direction from small businesses and hosts roundtables to receive input on what issues are of greatest importance. We need your help, as representatives of small business, to identify regulatory reform candidates which are of key importance to small business.
Please feel free to send your ideas also to Janis.Reyes@sba.gov or the Red Tape Hotline.
I hope you can join us on the 30th. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or require additional information, and please feel free to circulate this notice to any colleagues or associates who may be interested in attending or be added to our distribution list.
SBA Advocacy is an independent government office responsible for advancing the views of small businesses in the regulatory policy across the federal government. We conduct roundtables to hear the experiences, challenges, and recommendations of small businesses, and identify alternative approaches for policy development at federal regulatory agencies. Our roundtables are largely held online, to facilitate the attendance of stakeholders from a diverse range of backgrounds, industries, and geographic regions.
Roundtable meetings are open to all interested persons and are intended to facilitate an open and frank discussion about issues of interest to small business. These meetings are off the record and not intended for press purposes. Direct quotations of presenters or attendees may not be used without direct written approval of the person(s) making the statement. All press inquiries should be sent to chandler.baxter@sba.gov. Agendas and presentations are available to all. If you need accommodations for a disability to participate in the roundtable, please contact janis.reyes@sba.gov for assistance.
Should you have any questions or require further information, please contact Assistant Chief Counsel Janis Reyes at janis.reyes@sba.gov.
Visit https://advocacy.sba.gov/category/regulation/regulatory-alerts/ to comment on important proposed regulations.