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Address: We Should Make Sure the Future Is Written by Us
The White House
February 21, 2015
Hi, everybody. At a moment when our businesses are creating
jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s, we’ve still got to do everything we
can to help workers and businesses succeed in the new economy – one that’s
competitive, connected, and changing every day.
One thing we know for certain
about businesses in the 21st century is that they’ll need to sell more goods
and services Made in America to the rest of the world.
Now, our businesses already sell
goods and services in other countries at record levels. Our farmers, our factory workers, and our
small businesses are exporting more than ever before – and exporters tend to
pay their workers higher wages.
More small businesses are using
the internet to grow their business by reaching new customers they couldn’t
reach before, too. As an example, nine
in ten American small businesses that use eBay as a platform to sell their
products are exporters – with customers in more than 30 different countries on
average.
But there’s a lot of room for
growth. After all, 95% of the world’s
potential customers live outside our borders.
Many of them live in the Asia-Pacific – the world’s fastest-growing
region. And as we speak, China is trying
to write the rules for trade in the 21st century.
That would put our workers and
our businesses at a massive disadvantage.
We can’t let that happen. We
should write those rules.
That’s why Congress should act on
something called “trade promotion authority.” This is bipartisan legislation
that would protect American workers, and promote American businesses, with
strong new trade deals from Asia to Europe that aren’t just free, but are
fair. It would level the playing field
for American workers. It would hold all
countries to the same high labor and environmental standards to which we hold
ourselves.
Now, I’m the first to admit that
past trade deals haven’t always lived up to the hype. And that’s why we’ve successfully gone after
countries that break the rules at our workers’ expense. But that doesn’t mean we should close
ourselves off from new opportunities, and sit on the sidelines while other
countries write our future for us. We
should seize those opportunities. We should
make sure the future is written by us.
And if we do, we won’t just keep creating good new jobs for decades to
come – we’ll make sure that this century is another all-American century.
Thanks, and have a great weekend. |
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