[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 97 (Thursday, May 19, 2011)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 29139-29140]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12549]


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                Proclamation 8677 of May 13, 2011

                
World Trade Week, 2011

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                American businesses embody the ingenuity and 
                entrepreneurship that has defined our Nation since its 
                founding, and they consistently reinvent themselves to 
                adapt to changing times. As we recover from a historic 
                economic recession, enterprising commercial leaders 
                continue to look beyond our borders to supply the world 
                with innovative and technologically advanced products 
                and services. Millions of jobs in the United States are 
                tied to exports, and our world continues to grow more 
                interdependent.

                World Trade Week is a time to highlight the vital 
                connection between the global economy and the 
                prosperity of our own country. Our 21st-century economy 
                requires American businesses and workers to compete in 
                an international marketplace. To ensure our success, we 
                must advance a robust, forward-looking trade agenda 
                that emphasizes exports and domestic job growth.

                Last year, my Administration launched the National 
                Export Initiative, an effort to marshal the full 
                resources of the Federal Government behind America's 
                businesses, large and small, and help them sell their 
                goods, services, and ideas to the world. Though the 
                United States remains a leading exporter, this 
                Initiative is redoubling our efforts to ensure American 
                companies have free and fair access in trade, and it is 
                building on our successes in export-driven growth. 
                Through this effort, we can help even more American 
                companies grow, compete, and thrive in global markets 
                and help reach our goal of doubling exports in 5 years 
                by 2015. In turn, those companies will be able to hire 
                more American workers to produce the goods and services 
                they sell to customers around the world.

                By out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the 
                rest of the world, we can keep Americans working and 
                export more of the high-quality products and services 
                for which our workers and companies are admired. With a 
                commitment to winning the future, we can continue to 
                lead the world in attracting the jobs, businesses, and 
                industries of tomorrow.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim May 15 through May 
                21, 2011, as World Trade Week. I encourage all 
                Americans to observe this week with events, trade 
                shows, and educational programs that celebrate and 
                inform Americans about the benefits of trade to our 
                Nation and the global economy.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2011-12549
Filed 5-18-11; 11:15 am]
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