[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 125, 112th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
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.
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.
BARACK OBAMA