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.
Are there regulations that make it more difficult for small businesses to compete effectively? For example, regulations can increase compliance costs, preventing small businesses from competing on a level playing field with powerful corporations. Regulations can also discourage or even intentionally prohibit small businesses and new products from entering markets and lowering prices for American families.
Please RSVP to this roundtable using this LINK.
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-Hi2025-0001), 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.
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 contact janis.reyes@sba.gov 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.