[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 24, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 33429-33430]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 101 / Wednesday, May 24, 2000 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 7310 of May 19, 2000
World Trade Week, 2000
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The prosperity the United States enjoys today is due,
in no small part, to our strong trading relationships
with other nations. The World Trade Organization, the
North American Free Trade Agreement, and 270 other
agreements have helped us to open new markets for U.S.
products and services, create thousands of new jobs,
and keep our economy growing without inflation. The
African Growth and Opportunity Act and the United
States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act that I
signed into law this week will build on this progress
by lowering trade barriers and strengthening our
economic partnership with nations in sub-Saharan Africa
and the Caribbean basin.
The theme of World Trade Week this year, ``Working the
Web of Trade,'' reflects the particular importance of
the Internet as a new and rapidly accelerating factor
in world trade. The Internet holds enormous commercial
potential and brings extraordinary opportunities
directly into homes and workplaces across the United
States and around the world. Linking businesses and
consumers more quickly and directly than ever before,
the worldwide web is a powerful tool, available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, that allows even the
smallest company to conduct business on a global scale.
My Administration has worked hard to encourage
America's businesses and workers to embrace this
worldwide web of opportunity and its potential to
enhance productivity at home and access to markets
abroad. By investing in research and development,
improving the quality of science and mathematics
education in our schools, teaching workers new skills
to fill jobs in the technology sector, and keeping e-
commerce fair, safe, and competitive, we can stimulate
our export industries, sustain this remarkable period
of growth and prosperity, and ensure America's
continued leadership in the global economy.
This week, when the Congress takes up legislation to
grant Permanent Normal Trade Relations status to the
People's Republic of China, it will have an opportunity
to further the progress we have made in building strong
trading relationships. PNTR for China will increase
America's competitiveness in the global marketplace,
reduce tariffs, and give American workers and farmers
unprecedented access to China's more than one billion
consumers.
World trade, whether conducted in person, on paper, or
on line, remains a cornerstone of American economic
growth. But even more important, trade plays a vital
role in improving opportunity and prosperity around the
globe. Free and fair international trade is one of the
most effective tools we have to bring people together,
raise living standards in developed and developing
nations alike, promote human dignity, and improve long-
term prospects for democracy, stability, and world
peace.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim May 21 through May 27, 2000,
as World Trade Week. I invite the people of the United
States
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to observe this week with events, trade shows, and
educational programs that celebrate the benefits of
international trade to our economy and our world.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand, and of the Independence of the United States
of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.
(Presidential Sig.)
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