As part of eBay’s ongoing efforts to support World Trade Month, last week eBay CEO Designee Devin Wenig and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker co-authored an opinion piece entitled “The rise of the micro-multinational, and why it matters to the U.S.

Each year an increasing number of big ticket companies, venues and concert promoters attempt to impose unfair, anti-consumer and anti-competitive ticket practices for live events across the U.S. These actions often include attempts to pass anti-competitive ticket legislation at the state level. Fans, small businesses and nonprofits are being taken advantage of by a variety of policies and proposed legislation, including those that:

As May brings about both National Small Business Week and World Trade Month, we wanted to alert you to activity in the U.S. Congress on important trade legislation that could benefit small businesses that export online. Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate recently began debate on two bipartisan trade bills that would modernize the United States trade agenda and open up new opportunities for U.S. small businesses in the global marketplace.