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Healthy economic development depends on a healthy transportation system. That's because people depend on everything from boats to trains to get to work, move their products, and help customers shop at their stores.
Transportation equipment, including aerospace products and parts, automotive vehicles and parts, ships and boats, railroad rolling stock, recreational vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles, accounted for the largest category of U.S. merchandise exports, amounting to $218 billion in 2011.
President Obama has noted that the future of the U.S. is closely linked to the futures of our neighbors in Latin America. Last year, U.S. merchandise exports to Latin America totaled $367 billion, representing an increase of 54 percent compared to 2009, faster than the 36 percent increase seen with the rest of the world. |
On June 14th, President Obama announced a new U.S. strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa. The U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa will expand our efforts to increase economic growth, trade, and investment in the region while elevating our commercial relationships. |
Under Secretary Sánchez traveled to the Bay Area to talk about innovation, exports and jobs. While there, he presented Nikolas Weinstein of Nikolas Weinstein Studios an Export Achievement Certificate at his studio in San Francisco. |
John H. Sohl III is founder of Columbia Technologies, a Maryland company that maps underground pollution from large manufacturing facilities, oil terminals, pipelines and military bases. The company is a client of the Baltimore Export Assistance Center.
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Under Secretary Sánchez was in Cambodia recently to speak at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) business forum. He then traveled to Burma to address a U.S.-ASEAN Business Council business mission. Read more about this historic first trip by high-level U.S. government officials to Burma in decades. |
Shane Cooper is president of DeFeet International, a maker of cycling and other socks in Charlotte, North Carolina. He's a client of the Charlotte Export Assistance Center and he has built the business that now includes distributors in 35 countries. |
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