[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.