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It appears that the National Export Initiative (NEI) is on track to fulfill the President’s goal of doubling exports and creating several million jobs over the next five years.  According to this press release, significant progress has already been made on the President’s five main objectives:

1. Improved advocacy efforts on behalf of U.S. exporters: The Department of Commerce has coordinated 18 trade missions with over 160 companies participating in 24 countries.
2. Increased access to export financing: Ex-Im has more than doubled its loans to support American exporters from the same period last year, helping to support nearly 110,000 jobs.
3. Reinforced efforts to remove barriers to trade: In March, the United States reached an agreement with China to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork and pork products. In June, the United States agreed with Russia to reopen the Russian market to U.S. poultry exports. These steps are worth more than $1 billion.
4. Enforcement of trade rules:  Last week the WTO ruled that European governments subsidized Airbus’s large civil aircraft.   This ruling is expected to sustain and even restore jobs to American aerospace workers by leveling the playing field for the U.S. aerospace industry.
5. International promotion of policies leading to strong, sustainable and balanced economic growth: These last 18 months have been the most effective period of international economic cooperation in generations with global growth replacing economic contraction.

Members of the President’s Export Council have been announced.  Several appointees represent companies that are Management Dynamics customers (shown in bold)!

• Jim McNerney, Chairman, President and CEO of Boeing (Council Chair)
• Ursula Burns, Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation (Council Vice Chair)
• Mary Vermeer Andringa, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vermeer Corporation
• Stephanie A. Burns, Chairman, President and CEO of Dow Corning Corporation
• Scott Davis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UPS
• Dick Friedman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Carpenter & Company, Inc.
• Gene Hale, President and Founder of G&C Equipment Corporation
• C. Robert Henrikson, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc.
• William Hite, General President of United Association
• Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company
• Charles R. Kaye, Co-President of Warburg Pincus
• Jeff Kindler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer
• Andrew N. Liveris, President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company
• Robert A. Mandell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Greater Properties
• Alan Mulally, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ford Motor Company
• Raul Pedraza, Founder and President of Magno International L.P.
• Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verizon
• Glenn Tilton, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of UAL Corporation and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Air Lines
• James S. Turley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ernst & Young
• Patricia A. Woertz, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Archer Daniels Midland Company

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