Presidential Document2024-11389
World Trade Week, 2024
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May 22, 2024
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May 17, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 22, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 44905-44906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11389]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 22, 2024 /
Presidential Documents
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Proclamation 10761 of May 17, 2024
World Trade Week, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
This week, we recommit to ensuring that global trade
reflects America's highest values: fairness,
transparency, innovation, dignity, and opportunity for
American workers, American businesses, and American
families.
For decades, our country embraced trickle-down
economics which rewarded wealth, not work. Companies
took their jobs overseas to get cheaper labor.
Factories closed down. Manufacturing slowed. Entire
communities became hollowed out as American workers
lost their paychecks and sense of pride.
My Administration is changing that. Since I came into
office, we have focused on rebuilding our economy from
the bottom up and middle out--not the top down. We have
seen the results: We have created over 15 million jobs
since I took office, including nearly 800,000
manufacturing jobs. Unemployment has been at under 4
percent for more than 2 years for the first time in
more than 6 decades. A record 17 million Americans are
starting small businesses. As a result of investments
during my Administration, factories are coming back,
producing everything from semiconductors to clean
energy technology here at home. We have launched over
56,000 infrastructure projects across the country--
rebuilding our Nation's roads, highways, bridges,
railroads, ports, airports, and so much more.
As we rebuild at home, we are also ensuring American
workers and businesses have a fair shot abroad.
Together with 13 nations across the Indo-Pacific, we
are creating a new Economic Framework that will
strengthen our supply chains, raise labor standards,
advance our clean energy transition, and combat the
corruption that too often robs workers of a fair share
of the value they create. I am taking action to protect
American workers and businesses from China's unfair
trade practices and ensure they compete on a level
playing field, including increasing tariffs on $18
billion of imports from China to protect American
workers and businesses. At the same time, we are
working to increase trade with Kenya, Taiwan, and other
partners around the world.
No region impacts the economic security of the United
States more directly than the Western Hemisphere.
Together with 11 partners, we have launched the
Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity to build
more resilient supply chains, mobilize high-standard
investments in our partners' economies, and ensure that
trade-enabled growth means inclusive growth across all
of our nations. My Administration is helping to better
protect workers' rights, end unfair labor practices,
and support free and fair union elections. For example,
through the Partnership for Workers' Rights we launched
with Brazil, we are taking collective action to promote
workers' empowerment and end violations of workers'
rights, which is key to achieving sustainable economic
growth.
My Administration has launched historic trade
initiatives with the European Union to promote clean
manufacturing and create new jobs on both sides of the
Atlantic. For example, through the Global Arrangement
on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum, we are partnering to
tackle non-market excess capacity and emissions
intensity in the steel and aluminum sectors, which
threaten the competitiveness of our workers and
producers. Together, we created
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the U.S.-E.U. Trade and Technology Council that has
deepened our cooperation on sustainable, high-standard
trade.
The United States is also working with our partners to
combat non-market policies and practices and structural
overcapacity that distort global markets, create unfair
competitive advantages, and lead to dependencies that
make us vulnerable to coercion. From the G7 to our
partnerships with developing countries and our
engagement at the WTO, we are working across the board
to protect our workers, industries, and economic
security.
As my Administration takes these steps, American
workers will remain front of mind. Through the first-
ever Presidential Memorandum on Advancing Worker
Empowerment, Rights, and High Labor Standards Globally,
my Administration is making workers' rights central to
all of our international economic partnerships and
diplomacy, ensuring that workers get the dignity and
opportunity they deserve. We are working to expand
trade opportunities for communities that have too often
been left behind--including helping small businesses
compete in international markets through our new
National Export Strategy and making it easier for small
and medium sized businesses to access loans from the
Export-Import Bank of the United States. The Department
of Commerce launched a Global Diversity Export
Initiative to help minority-owned businesses overcome
barriers to entering international trade.
All across our country, American workers are writing
the greatest comeback story our Nation has ever known.
This week and every week, my Administration recommits
to ensuring our trade supports them, protects them, and
helps forge a better future for our Nation--one where
no one is left behind and everyone gets a fair shot.
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 19 through
May 25, 2024, 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
seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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[FR Doc. 2024-11389
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