President's Export Council
The President's Export Council serves as the principal national advisory committee on international trade. The Council advises the President of government policies and programs that affect U.S. trade performance; promotes export expansion; and provides a forum for discussing and resolving trade-related problems among the business, industrial, agricultural, labor, and government sectors.
Read the PEC’s statement on the Administration's Progress on the International Trade Agenda.
June 6, 2012 President's Export Council Meeting
The President's Export Council held a meeting on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Below are links to the five letters of recommendation deliberated and adopted at the meeting as well as the transcript of the meeting and a video of the proceedings:
- Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Russia
- Transatlantic Partnership Agreement
- Federal, State, and Local Cooperation on Export Promotion
- Travel and Tourism
- Export Control
February 17, 2012 New Private Sector Members
President Obama announced the appointment of two new private-sector members to the President's Export Council on Friday, February 17, 2012.
- Dr. Gary W. Loveman, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Caesars Entertainment Corp
- Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer of Campbell Soup Company
November 16, 2011 President's Export Council Meeting
The President's Export Council held a meeting on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. The meeting was broadcast live via whitehouse.gov, and a transcript of the proceedings of the PEC meeting along with a link to watch the meeting will be forthcoming. Below are links to the four letters of recommendation deliberated and adopted at the meeting:
- Information Technology Agreement Expansion
- Workforce Readiness
- Middle East & North Africa Commercial Engagement
- President's Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration Update
Watch the Meeting
Read the Transcript
October 27, 2011 Next President’s Export Council Meeting to be held Wednesday, November 16
The next meeting of the President’s Export Council will convene its next meeting via live webcast on the Internet at http://whitehouse.gov/live. To learn more, please review the Federal Register Notice.
October 21, 2011 President Obama Signs the Trade Agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama.
This morning, President Obama signed legislation implementing three job-supporting trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama. These trade agreements will help put Americans back to work and grow America’s economy.
Members of the Presidents Export Council, including PEC Chair Jim McNerney of Boeing, Vice-Chair Ursula Burns of Xerox, Andrew Liveris of the Dow Chemical Company, Jim Turley of Ernst & Young and Patricia Woertz of Archer Daniels Midland Company participated in the signings at the White House.
October 3, 2011 President Obama Submits Trade Agreements to Congress
The members of the President's Export Council strongly supported the passage of the pending trade agreements in a letter written to the President last Fall. President Obama submitted the agreements to Congress on October 3, 2011. Below, read more about the PEC members support of his action.
Public Statements of support from PEC members
More information on the Trade Agreements
March 11, 2011 President's Export Council Meeting
March 11, 2011
The President's Export Council held a meeting on Friday, March 11, 2011. A transcript of the proceedings of the PEC meeting can be viewed here. Below are links to the six letters of recommendation deliberated and adopted at the meeting:
- Transportation Infrastructure
- Trade Facilitation/Single Window
- Export-Import Bank Financing
- Business Visas
- 21st Century Trade
- SME Trade Capacity/Export Assistance
December 9, 2010
The President's Export Council held a meeting on Thursday, December 9, 2010. A transcript of the President’s remarks and the proceedings of the PEC meeting can be viewed here.
Below are links to the five letters of recommendation deliberated and adopted at the meeting:
- Benchmarking
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Services Data
- Tax Reform
- Russia's Accession to the World Trade Organization
September 16, 2010
The President's Export Council held a meeting on Thursday, September 16, 2010. A transcript of the President’s remarks and the proceedings of the PEC meeting can be viewed here.
Below are the four letters of recommendation deliberated and approved at the meeting:
Private-Sector Members
On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, President Obama announced the appointment of twenty private-sector members of the President’s Export Council.
- W. James McNerney, Jr., PEC Chair, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Boeing Company
- Ursula M. Burns, PEC Vice Chair, Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation
- Mary Vermeer Andringa, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vermeer Corporation
- Stephanie A. Burns, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dow Corning
- Scott Davis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS
- Richard L. Friedman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Carpenter & Company, Inc.
- Gene Hale, President and Founder, G&C Equipment Corporation
- C. Robert Henrikson, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, MetLife, Inc.
- William Hite, General President, United Association
- Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company
- Charles R. Kaye, Co-President, Warburg Pincus
- Andrew N. Liveris, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Dow Chemical Company
- Alan Mulally, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ford Motor Company
- Raul Pedraza, Founder and President, Magno International L.P.
- Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Verizon
- Glenn Tilton, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, UAL Corporation
- James S. Turley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ernst & Young
- Patricia A. Woertz, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, Archer Daniels Midland Company
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