{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://adriansmith.house.gov/media/press-releases/smith-colleagues-urge-president-address-digital-trade-barriers-japan", "Smith, Colleagues Urge President to Address Digital Trade Barriers in Japan", "2025-10-27", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "House", "NE", "Adrian Smith", "S001172", "adriansmith.house.gov", "adriansmith", "https://adriansmith.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) led 20 House Republicans in sending a letter urging President Donald Trump to address Japan's Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) during his visit to Japan. The MSCA targets American digital companies through unfair regulatory barriers which hamper innovation and threaten productivity.\n\nKey excerpts of the letter include:\n\nWe applaud your Administration\u2019s tireless efforts to address longstanding trade barriers that negatively impact U.S. companies operating in foreign markets.\n\n...\n\nAs you embark on your first trip to Asia of your current term, we wish to draw your attention to an area of ongoing concern in the U.S.-Japan bilateral trade relationship \u2013 the digital economy....Apparently drawing direct inspiration from the European Union\u2019s highly problematic Digital Markets Act (DMA), Japan\u2019s Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) targets solely U.S. companies for special rules and obligations that restrict how these companies can conduct business and interact with customers in Japan...No Japanese, Chinese, or other third-country companies are subject to the law.\n\n...\n\nWe encourage you to raise this issue in your upcoming meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan, and we stand at the ready to support your efforts to keep bringing down barriers for our world-leading digital companies.\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://adriansmith.house.gov/media/press-releases/smith-colleagues-urge-president-address-digital-trade-barriers-japan"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7948121055960655, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}