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Spurring Innovation During National Entrepreneurship Month

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By: Karen Dunn Kelley American ingenuity has powered our nation through advances in technologies such as integrated circuits, personal computers, and the Internet. Through recessions and economic booms, innovation has remained the hallmark of the U.S. economy. Americans have consistently invented revolutionary new technologies and, in the process, created immense global industries. If the United...
Intellectual property
Space commerce
Weather and satellites

Remarks by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross at the Aerospace Industries Association Board of Governors Meeting

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Good morning, and thank you for the warm introduction. Today is an exciting time for aerospace industries in America. The economy is strong. Tax cuts and deregulation are maximizing business opportunities and creating jobs. And domestic manufacturing is growing at an unprecedented rate. Over the last year, U.S. manufacturing added well over 300,000 jobs, the most since 1995. Under the Trump...
Space commerce
Aerospace

Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross at the 2018 National Competitiveness Forum

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Thank you for inviting me to your Forum. Today’s discussion is extremely important to the future course of our country. Global industrial competitiveness continues to be one our greatest and most complex national challenges. Thank you, Sam Allen, for leading the Council on Competitiveness from your perch atop Deere & Co., one of our most iconic and innovative American companies. We all know that...
Export and investment promotion
Intellectual property
Space commerce

Celebrate and Support Small Businesses

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Saturday, November 24, 2018 is Small Business Saturday® – a day to celebrate and support small businesses and all they do for their communities. Please join the SBA and organizations across the country in supporting your local small business by shopping at a small business. How You Can Participate For shoppers Find participating small businesses in your area For small business owners Get advice on...
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Small Business Saturday

U.S. Department of Commerce Issues Affirmative Preliminary Countervailing Duty Determination on Steel Racks from China

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WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of imports of steel racks from China, finding that exporters received countervailable subsidies ranging from 5.04 to 150.49 percent. As a result of today’s decision, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect cash deposits...
Countervailing duty (CD)

U.S. Department of Commerce Initiates Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Investigations of Imports of Magnesium from Israel

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Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce is announcing the initiation of new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether magnesium from Israel is being sold in the United States at less than fair value and to determine if producers in Israel are receiving unfair subsidies. These investigations were initiated based on petitions filed by US Magnesium LLC on...
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Antidumping (AD)
Countervailing duty (CD)

Remarks by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross at the Cheniere Energy, Inc. Liquefaction — First Cargo Celebration in Corpus Christi, Texas

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Thank you, Jack, for that kind introduction. And congratulations on your leadership in seeing this colossal and magnificent project all the way through to fruition. It is also my pleasure to share the stage with you, Governor Abbott. I noticed that it was your birthday earlier this week, Governor: happy birthday. I won’t disclose your age, if you won’t disclose mine! Also, congratulations,...
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Exports

Op-Ed: Trump is Keeping His Promises to Forgotten Coal Communities

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On inauguration day, President Donald J. Trump promised America that “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.” In few areas was that promise better fulfilled than for American coal miners. Before the president took office, eight years of the “War on Coal” had taken its toll on our proud and once thriving coal communities. Between January 2009 and February 2017, the...
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