[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