World Trade Week, 2018

Proclamation 9752 of May 18, 2018

World Trade Week, 2018

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

America's trade relationships are critical to our
economic vitality and world leadership. During World
Trade Week, we reaffirm our Nation's unwavering
commitment to trading regimes that are free, fair, and
reciprocal.

Our Nation has entered a new era in trade policy that
is based on the recognition that our economic security
is critical to our national security. My trade agenda
aims to accelerate American exports through policies
that are focused on rebuilding our industries,
strengthening the defense industrial base in the United
States, and equipping our workforce with state-of-the-
art skills. As part of this strategy, I will continue
to renegotiate and modernize our trade agreements to
meet the challenges of the 21st century. My
Administration is also enforcing our well-established
trade laws once again, as well as eliminating
burdensome and unnecessary regulations and foreign
barriers to our products and services. We are focused
on promoting American industries and goods; as a result
of vigorous tax, trade, and regulatory policies, we are
attracting a new wave of investment into our Nation's
commercial enterprises.

Over the past year, the United States has made
tremendous strides in restoring our Nation's economy.
American firms, however, are still vastly
underrepresented in international markets. My
Administration is taking concrete actions to restore
America's capacity to compete in an increasingly
international market. We are dedicated to a renewed and
equitable North American Free Trade Agreement that
promotes the export of American products rather than
American jobs. The recent agreement in principle on the
United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement offers an
opportunity to rebalance an unfair trade relationship.
By strongly enforcing trading rules, our Nation's
businesses and manufacturers will be better positioned
to gain strength domestically and in export markets
throughout the world.

The United States will no longer tolerate any foreign
nations gaining unfair advantages on American
industries by stealing or forcing the transfer of our
companies' technology or intellectual property,
subsidizing their exporters, illegally dumping products
into our markets, and building excessive and
unnecessary capacity. These unfair and distortionary
trade practices flood global markets, depress prices,
and harm our companies and workers. We will not allow
these practices to compromise our leadership in
intellectual property, digital products, innovative
technology, manufacturing, agriculture, and numerous
industrial sectors.

My Administration recognizes the importance of
prioritizing the interests of American workers and
businesses by promoting reciprocal trade based on open,
fair, and competitive markets. By adhering to these
fundamental principles of international trade, we will
expand trade in a way that is fair for the United
States and leads to a more effective and balanced world
trading system.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, 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 20 through May
26, 2018, as World Trade Week. I encourage Americans to
observe

this week with events, trade shows, and educational
programs that celebrate the benefits of trade to our
country.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
second.