    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 21 (Monday, May 29, 1995)]
    [Pages 887-888]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 6805--World Trade Week, 1995

    May 22, 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 strat-

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    egy. 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 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.
                                                William J. Clinton

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:15 p.m., May 23, 1995]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on May 25.