Obama Creates Task Force on Commercial Advocacy to Boost Exports
President Obama established an Interagency Task Force On Commercial Advocacy, in an executive order Dec. 6. He said the goal is "to help level the playing field on behalf of U.S. businesses and workers competing for international contracts against foreign firms and to facilitate the growth of sales of U.S. goods and services around the world in support of the National Export Initiative."
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The creation of a new whole-of-government commercial advocacy task force will provide enhanced federal support for U.S. businesses "and increase the availability of information to the U.S. business community about these kinds of export opportunities," the order said.
The Task Force will be chaired by the Secretary of Commerce and consist of senior-level officials from the Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Agency for International Development, Export-Import Bank of the U.S., Millennium Challenge Corp., Overseas Private Investment Corp., U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and other agencies that may be designated. A senior-level Commerce Department official will be named executive director of the task force.