This label would be more accurate if it read
“NOT made in the European Union”

The Computer & Communications Industry Association, a trade organization for the American satellite industry, last week issued its own damning report on Europe’s proposed Space Act, which will attempt to impose European Union (EU) regulations on American companies, even if they have no operations in Europe.

You can read the report here. The report’s main conclusion is that if American space-related companies continue to pursue European customers under this proposed law, the act will cost those companies billions.

The EU Space Act could impose billions in incremental compliance costs on U.S. companies, which would lead to increased market prices, reduced U.S. exports, reduced U.S. tax revenues, harm to the U.S. space industry’s global competitiveness, increased global market share in dual-use space assets for China, and by extension harm to U.S. national security interests. If the EU recognized existing U.S. practices and international standards as equivalent to most EUSA requirements, the equivalence decision would save U.S. companies over $1 billion through 2035, mitigating the harms.

The report is useful because it provides analysis for all three versions of the Space Act being considered by the EU, finding that none would be beneficial.

Nor is this report the only one to oppose Europe’s Space Act. The leftist Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) issued its own report in December 2025 blasting the proposed Act. The State Department has also condemned the act, noting its lack of respect for U.S. sovereignty while imposing “unacceptable regulatory burdens on U.S. providers of space services to European customers.”

Whether the EU listens is unknown, and appears unlikely. Brussels has shown a consistent arrogance about its regulatory reach, ignoring objections to its massive red tape not only from outside the EU but within it as well. I expect if any version of this act is passed American satellite companies are going to do what China has already done, “written off large parts of the EU market already,” as noted in the report.

The result will impoverish the EU, but harm the American space industry as well.