Office of Advocacy

On December 7, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a notice of availability for a draft environmental impact statement for the construction and operations plan submitted by Vineyard…

The Office of Advocacy has released the January-February  2019 edition of the “The Small Business Advocate,” newsletter, Vol. 38, No. 1. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, you may do so here.

Advocacy has published a report titled What Small Businesses Are Saying and What Advocacy Is Doing About It: Progress Report on the Office of Advocacy’s Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables.

In early 2016, Congress passed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (TFTEA). This law established a new role for the Office of Advocacy: to facilitate greater consideration of small business economic issues during international…

The negotiations on the NAFTA Modernization resulted in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which was signed on November 30, 2018. USMCA will replace the NAFTA upon its entry into force. Below are the U.S. Trade…

The Office of Advocacy submits the following comments to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding its proposed rule which creates an early registration process for the H-1B visa…

This Advocacy research report, "Small Business GDP, 1998-2014," shows that small businesses account for 44 percent of U.S. economic activity. This is a significant contribution, however this overall share has declined gradually.

In December 2018, the Office of Advocacy published a fact sheet titled “Small Business Facts: Spotlight on Veteran-Owned Employer Businesses” written by Nora Esposito, Economic Research Fellow. The fact sheet provides general information on…