[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 25769-25770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13102]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 22, 1996 /
Presidential Documents
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Proclamation 6899 of May 20, 1996
World Trade Week, 1996
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
International commerce is vital to domestic economic
growth--perhaps more so now than at any other time in
recent U.S. history. Our Nation's prosperity depends in
large part on our ability to develop and produce high-
quality products, identify and open markets, and
promote American goods and services across the globe.
The U.S. jobs supported by exports are increasingly
important, paying an average of 13 percent more than
other positions and accounting for nearly one out of
ten American workers and one in five of those in the
manufacturing sector. The theme of this year's World
Trade Week, ``Winning with Exports,'' is an invitation
and a challenge to U.S. firms to reap the benefits of
doing business abroad.
My Administration has developed a National Export
Strategy that places special emphasis on helping small-
and medium-sized companies seize trade opportunities.
As part of this plan, we have created a country-wide
network of U.S. Export Assistance Centers to provide
information and capital to businesses seeking to
expand. The results speak for themselves; in 1995,
actions taken by Centers like those in Chicago and
Baltimore dramatically increased the number of U.S.
firms entering new markets and boosting export sales.
Trade is also a means of fostering understanding and
stability around the world, helping our Nation to build
partnerships founded on mutual prosperity. American
commerce and investments are strengthening new
democracies whose viability depends on economic growth
and raised standards of living. From South Africa, to
Central Europe, the Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine, and
the Newly Independent States, exporting is allowing our
country to play a pivotal role in settling and
solidifying crucial foreign markets. Trade is also
essential to troubled regions such as the Middle East,
Northern Ireland, and Bosnia, where job creation and
economic improvements play an important role in efforts
to achieve peace.
As we observe World Trade Week, 1996, let us strive to
give our Nation's exporters every opportunity to sell
products freely and fairly and help our companies to
meet the challenge of exploring markets abroad. Their
efforts to maintain efficient, high-quality production
and to promote American goods and services to an
international clientele will lead to a stronger economy
and a brighter future for us all.
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 19 through May 25, 1996,
as World Trade Week. I call upon the people of the
United States to observe this week with ceremonies,
activities, and programs that celebrate the potential
of international trade.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and twentieth.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 96-13102
Filed 5-21-96; 10:58 am]
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