World Trade Week, 2023, 33527-33528 [2023-11206]

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• Executive Office of the President

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 33527-33528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11206]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 / 
Presidential Documents

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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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[FR Doc. 2023-11206
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