[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 101 (Thursday, May 25, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 27665-27666]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13020]




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Part VI





The President





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Proclamation 6805--World Trade Week, 1995
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                Proclamation 6805 of May 22, 1995

                
World Trade Week, 1995

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                American exports bolster the quality of life for 
                countless people, supporting 10.5 million jobs here at 
                home and supplying popular American products to 
                millions worldwide. They fuel our Nation's economy, 
                create high-wage jobs for our citizens, and link us to 
                countries everywhere. That is why my Administration 
                supported NAFTA and brought the Uruguay Round GATT 
                negotiations to a successful conclusion. As we 
                celebrate World Trade Week this year, we pause to 
                recognize the many ways in which ``Exporting is 
                Everybody's Business.''

                In the two years since my Administration launched this 
                country's first National Export Strategy, America has 
                led the way in trade promotion and advocacy efforts, 
                strengthening existing programs and developing new 
                initiatives to serve U.S. exporters. The Trade 
                Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) has worked to 
                create a more streamlined, responsive, and effective 
                system that enhances our Nation's economy and helps our 
                firms to compete successfully around the globe.

                During the past year, we have worked to develop a new, 
                innovative trade finance strategy. The Export-Import 
                Bank of the United States, the Overseas Private 
                Investment Corporation, the Trade and Development 
                Agency, the Small Business Administration, and the 
                Departments of the Treasury and Commerce have provided 
                new forms of trade finance that help our firms to 
                compete in the global marketplace. We are addressing 
                the removal of unnecessary and ineffective export 
                controls and streamlining the licensing process, 
                liberalizing controls on a range of high-technology 
                products and increasing the effectiveness of 
                multilateral control regimes.

                With the restructuring of the U.S. and Foreign 
                Commercial Service, now the Commercial Service of the 
                United States, the Department of Commerce is working in 
                partnership with the businesses it serves, promoting 
                U.S. exports, advocating U.S. business interests 
                abroad, assisting U.S. firms to realize their export 
                potential, and supporting the export promotion efforts 
                of other public and private organizations. By the end 
                of this year, 15 U.S. Export Assistance Centers will be 
                open across the country, offering virtually every 
                American business person a coordinated, multi-faceted, 
                international trade team close at hand.

                Already, U.S. exports to our neighbors in the Southern 
                Hemisphere exceed $92 billion, generating good jobs for 
                our workers and demonstrating our competitiveness 
                throughout the international marketplace. At the Summit 
                of the Americas this past December, our Nation 
                reaffirmed its commitment to the extension of free 
                trade throughout the Hemisphere by the year 2005--an 
                opportunity that promises to bolster our economy even 
                further. These efforts, combined with our progress with 
                the countries of the Organization for Asian-Pacific 
                Economic Cooperation (APEC), mean trade gains of 
                historic proportions. And that means more jobs for 
                hardworking Americans.

                Still, much remains to be done. U.S. exporters must be 
                given every opportunity to sell our products freely and 
                fairly. Our companies must meet the challenge of 
                venturing into new markets. They must keep quality high 
                and production efficient, while marketing American 
                goods and services to [[Page 27666]] new customers 
                around the world. The work is difficult, but the 
                rewards are great: a strong economy, better goods and 
                services, and a brighter future for all of us.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim May 21 through May 27, 1995, 
                as ``World Trade Week.'' I invite the people of the 
                United States to join in appropriate observances to 
                celebrate the potential of international trade to 
                create prosperity for all.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 95-13020
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