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 The
2004 edition of the annual report of the Trade Promotion
Coordinating Committee (TPCC) details the successful
outcome of the administration's three-year effort to
streamline bureaucracies and make federal trade-promotion
programs more responsive, efficient, and easier to use.
These efforts were first outlined in a series of recommendations
made in the 2002 National Export Strategy, based upon
a survey of small and medium-sized exporters.
"Having
fulfilled the objectives we set out to accomplish in
the 2002 National Export Strategy," said Secretary
of Commerce Donald L. Evans in his introduction to the
2004 report, "the TPCC agencies are ready to take
a forward-looking approach and use our trade promotion
strategies more strategically." These include devoting
more resources to helping small businesses - and especially
manufacturers - gain access to China; launching government-wide
commercial strategies to help U.S. companies take full
advantage of new free trade agreements; and utilizing
the TPCC as a tool for furthering the national economic
security agenda in post-crisis regions such as Iraq
and Afghanistan.
The
TPCC is an interagency group chaired by the secretary
of commerce. The Export Enhancement Act of 1992 established
the TPCC to harmonize the export promotion and financing
programs of the U.S. government, as well as to develop
a comprehensive plan for implementing such programs.
(April
2004; xii, 69 pages; ISSN 1544-7057)
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