Advocacy Issues

PRINTING United Alliance tracks, monitors, and influences public policy and legislation that impacts the printing industry, its workforce, and its customers. Our pro-print legislative agenda supports policies that encourage industry growth and innovation, while combatting policies that would be detrimental to the industry’s overall success. Learn more about the issues and legislation impacting print, utilize our legislative resource tools, and take action to voice your company’s positions on key Congressional votes.

Legislative Resources Regulatory Agenda

Investment & Innovation

Encouraging pro-print, pro-growth tax policies that support investment, innovation, and long-term business planning. This includes maintaining competitive tax rates, a permanent 20% small business tax deduction, strengthening cost recovery provisions, supporting research and development incentives, and advancing policies that help printing businesses modernize equipment, adopt new technologies, expand operations, and pursue new market opportunities.

Advertising & Promotion

Preserving the freedom to advertise and ensuring businesses can continue to fully deduct advertising expenses as a necessary and ordinary cost of doing business. This includes opposing efforts to limit or weaken the advertising tax deduction, and combatting content controls and advertising restrictions. Participation in shaping consumer data privacy legislation and promoting print as an essential and effective communications channel.

Delivery & Logistics

Maintaining the U.S. Postal Service as a reliable, affordable, and essential delivery channel for printed materials, mail, and packages. This includes supporting policies that strengthen USPS service performance, preserve universal delivery, and ensure predictable postal rates for businesses and consumers. Addressing global supply chain challenges, easing tariffs and trade barriers that increase costs for the printing industry, and encouraging competitive transportation and logistics costs so printed products can move efficiently through the marketplace.

Consumer Choice of Print

Ensuring consumers have access to important printed communications, such as financial documents, billing statements, notices, disclosures, account information, and other essential records, without undue fees, restrictions, or penalties. This includes protecting the ability of individuals to receive paper-based information to ensure accessibility and consumer protection.

Environment & Sustainability

Promoting environmental policies that result in reasonable regulation and legislation addressing pollution control, recyclability, and sustainability, such as extended producer responsibility (EPR) and climate change that provides societal benefits without resulting in undue cost burdens or demand destruction of print and packaging.

Workforce Development

Advocating for the reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), expanded apprenticeship opportunities, and a skills-first policy agenda that helps employers recruit, hire, and retain talent. These efforts support traditional and alternative education pathways, strengthen the education-to-employment pipeline, and ensure workers, including untapped talent, can gain the skills needed to adapt to new technologies and meet future workforce demands.