United States International Trade Commission

About the agency
The United States International Trade Commission is an independent and bipartisan federal agency that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches.

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The USITC's 2015 FOIA Report states: "The United States International Trade Commission is a quasi-judicial federal agency with broad investigative responsibilities on matters of trade. As a result, the USITC collects much commercial and financial information that is confidential, and generates many documents subject to deliberative processes and other privileges. The USITC asserts FOIA’s exemptions 4 and 5 more often than it asserts the rest of the exemptions combined, in order to prevent release of privileged information and confidential information such as trade secrets."

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