Is This World Trade Month or What?
May 6, 2010Francisco J. Sánchez is the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade.
Looking out into the dark Atlantic flying home from Brazil on an overnight trip, I was preparing for a meeting in Washington with the American Chamber of Commerce in China whose member companies do business there. And I was also thinking about getting back on a plane this evening to meet in Miami tomorrow with ITA’s senior commercial officers in Europe. They are in Florida to help business owners expand their exports. Is this World Trade Month or what?
The fact of the matter is that for ITA, every day is World Trade Month, but May is the designated month to focus public attention on the importance of trade. The various presentations, conversations and discussions with trade officials and businessmen and businesswomen that I had in just three days are symbolic of the push we are making to promote exports. More exports, more jobs – it is that simple…and it is that important, especially when President Obama has directed us to help double exports over the next five years to support two million jobs.
And so the drive is on, and all of us at ITA must join together to make May and the other eleven months of the year a success.
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