In our days, surveillance is being performed by all governments and many private companies. For US to be the only country that doesn't do it, it would be uncompetitive.
Governments spy on other nations businesses, then pass the information back to their companies who process to undercut the competition (because they have all the information)
'According to the indictment, five hackers “stole trade secrets” which allowed Chinese companies to undercut their American competitors, or gave them “insight into [their] strategy and vulnerabilities”. '
Here's China doing it to America http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/10842339/A...
'According to the indictment, five hackers “stole trade secrets” which allowed Chinese companies to undercut their American competitors, or gave them “insight into [their] strategy and vulnerabilities”. '
And here's America doing it to everyone else (including allies both domestic and foreign) https://theintercept.com/2014/09/05/us-governments-plans-use...