    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 128, 113th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    PROCLAMATION 9128--MAY 16, 2014

    Proclamation 9128 of May 16, 2014

    World Trade Week, 2014

    By the President of the United States of America

    A Proclamation

    Commercial ties build partnerships between nations and spur growth
    across the world. Here in America, trade bolsters our small businesses,
    which make up 98 percent of our exporters and create nearly two out of
    every three new jobs. During World Trade Week, we celebrate these
    benefits, and we redouble our efforts to promote trade while protecting
    workers, safeguarding the environment, and opening markets to new goods
    stamped, ``Made in the USA.''
    My Administration is dedicated to supporting high-quality American jobs
    through exports. In 2010, I launched the National Export Initiative
    (NEI), and since then our determined focus on exports has helped more
    American small and medium-sized businesses and farmers create jobs by
    selling their products abroad. We are now selling more American goods
    and services overseas than at any time in our history. Last year alone,
    our exports supported 11.3 million American jobs.
    Earlier this month, my Administration renewed its commitment to creating
    American jobs by launching a new phase of the National Export
    Initiative, NEI/NEXT. This new phase will build on the NEI's success by
    helping companies find export opportunities, gain access to financing,
    and move their goods across borders. NEI/NEXT will also open markets
    around the world while ensuring a level playing field for American
    companies. My Administration is also helping American companies
    strengthen their global competitiveness by investing in cutting-edge
    manufacturing techniques. Over the past 4 years, factories that once
    went dark have turned on their lights again, and the United States has
    seen the first sustained growth in manufacturing jobs in over two
    decades.
    As we ensure the next technological revolution is American-made, we must
    also create new opportunities to sell our goods throughout the world.
    Alongside our partners in the Asia-Pacific, we are working to complete
    negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will lower barriers
    to trade, create jobs in America and across the Pacific, and open up
    markets to our exports in the world's fastest-growing region. And to
    grow prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic, we launched negotiations
    with the European Union on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment
    Partnership.
    America's economic strength is a source of strength in the world. As our
    global economy evolves, as countries forge ever-stronger links, the
    United States must not stand on the sidelines. If we do not shirk from
    this challenge, if we continue to embrace the grit and innovative spirit
    that has always defined our Nation, I am confident America's best days
    lie ahead.
    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 18 through May 24,
    2014, as World Trade Week. I encourage all Americans to observe this
    week with events, trade shows, and educational

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    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 sixteenth day of
    May, in the year of our Lord two thousand fourteen, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
    eighth.
    BARACK OBAMA