Presidential Document2023-11206
World Trade Week, 2023
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May 24, 2023
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May 19, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11206]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 /
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Proclamation 10584 of May 19, 2023
World Trade Week, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
My Administration is committed to building an economy
from the bottom up and middle out, ensuring every
worker gets a fair shot at the American Dream. Global
trade is a key part of making that dream a reality. By
expanding markets around the world for American
businesses and crafting rules for fair competition, we
can empower our workers, protect our planet, and
promote inclusive prosperity. During World Trade Week,
we recommit to writing a new story on trade--a worker-
centered story--where everyone has dignity and
opportunity and no one is left behind.
This new story begins with investing in America. For
decades, the middle class and thriving towns across
America were hollowed out as good-paying jobs moved
overseas and factories at home closed down. My
Administration is changing that. Through our blue-
collar blueprint for America, we have created more than
12 million jobs and brought unemployment down to its
lowest rate in more than 50 years. Across the country,
we are witnessing a manufacturing boom, and factories
are coming back to America to produce the
semiconductors that power everything from cellphones
and automobiles to the technology that will power our
clean energy future. In every State, construction is
underway to rebuild our roads, bridges, ports,
airports, and water systems.
These investments in our country will help us maintain
our innovative edge, boost our industrial capacity, and
ensure we have the best-trained workforce--making us a
stronger, more capable partner for our allies and all
those who share our vision for a more equitable
economic future around the world. That is why 13
economies in the Indo-Pacific stepped up to join the
United States in strengthening labor standards,
incentivizing the use of clean energy, and protecting
our economies from corruption. Together with 11 of our
neighbors in the Western Hemisphere, we are working to
drive inclusive regional economic growth and create
good-quality jobs. We are working to increase trade
with Kenya and Taiwan--two vibrant partners in critical
parts of the world. And we are working closely with
international partners to build more resilient and
reliable supply chains for critical minerals used in
products like electric vehicle batteries.
We are also deepening our cooperation with the European
Union--negotiating the world's first emission-based
trade arrangement on steel and aluminum to reward fair
trade, promote clean manufacturing, and generate good
jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. At the same time,
the United States and the European Union are
collectively addressing unfair competition from non-
market economies and authoritarian regimes and working
to eliminate forced labor from global supply chains.
We know that, with every new commitment we make, we
must also enforce existing ones to build trust and
confidence in trade. That is why my Administration has
been laser-focused on working through the United
States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to uphold our commitment
to workers' rights and environmental protections and to
ensure that our dairy farmers and businesses in the
energy and agricultural biotechnology sectors are
treated fairly. We also remain committed to the World
Trade Organization and to working
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with nations around the world to help the institution
more effectively promote fair competition,
transparency, and the rule of law while fostering
supply chain resiliency through improved border
procedures and addressing challenges like the climate
crisis.
At home, my Administration is incorporating diverse
voices into our policymaking--from small businesses and
entrepreneurs to manufacturers, farmers, ranchers,
fishers, and producers--to ensure trade works for more
sectors of the American economy. We are taking steps to
expand the benefits of trade to historically
underrepresented and underserved communities, including
making it easier for small- and medium-sized
enterprises to access loans and loan guarantees offered
by the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and
working to double the number of businesses receiving
export assistance from the Department of Commerce.
In America, we believe that everyone deserves a shot at
prosperity. My Administration will continue to make
sure trade is a force for good for all Americans--
lifting up workers and businesses, forging lasting
partnerships around the globe, and building a better
and brighter tomorrow for us all.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 21 through
May 27, 2023, as World Trade Week. I call upon all
Americans to observe this week and to celebrate with
appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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