Report to Congress: Commercial Offices Abroad Need Substantial Improvements to Assist U.S. Export Objectives1972 - 51 pages |
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APPENDIX areas assisting U.S. Bangkok bassadors BIC officials cial officers Commerce agrees Commerce efforts Commerce headquarters Commerce's commercial activities commercial office activities commercial office operations Commercial offices abroad commercial services commercial staffs Department of Commerce developing economic/commercial Embassy Export Expansion Efforts export expansion programs export performance export promotion ficers Foreign Commerce foreign firms Foreign Service officers functions implement important improve increase the number market research ment merce mercial officers Netherlands number of commercial Oslo overseas commercial offices Overseas Export Expansion overseas posts participation portunities posts we visited potential present programs product certifications recommendations requests responses Senate Senate Commerce Committee special quotas specific status of commercial sumer tion tive trade and investment trade center trade contact surveys Trade Directory Reports trade promotion U.S. businessmen U.S. commercial U.S. firms U.S. Government U.S. industry U.S. Information Service U.S. products U.S. trade unified Foreign Service Washington World Trade Directory
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Page 35 - State and shall be consolidated with and administered as a part of the Foreign Service of the United States under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of State.
Page 35 - ... separate service directly responsible to the Secretary of Commerce has been debated intermittently for more than a half century. Indeed, operation of a separate foreign commercial service under the Department of Commerce was attempted in the era prior to 1939, but this operational concept was abandoned in recognition of the increasing interdependence of political, economic, and commercial matters In foreign affairs,, and the cross-purposes that developed In operating separate services abroad...
Page 25 - Although the unified Foreign Service thus is committed to export promotion, the Department of State has lacked an organizational means of focusing on programs and policy for commercial activities. We have bent our efforts to small pieces of the commercial function, and there we do well.
Page 1 - COMMERCIAL OFFICES ABROAD NEED SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS TO ASSIST US EXPORT OBJECTIVES Department of State Department of Commerce...
Page 25 - But we have had no office specifically charged with responsibility of devising, in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, the most effective overall trade promotion and general commercial strategy. The Department in effect essentially has declined responsibility for effective implementation of trade promotion.
Page 35 - Commerce to promote foreign commerce, investigate and report on commercial and industrial conditions abroad, and perform such other related duties as the Secretary of Commerce directed. Its officers had reporting tasks but did not have representative authority.
Page 26 - Nature of Membership. — The Committee consists of two panels: the International Copyright Panel and the International Industrial Property Panel. In both cases the Chairman is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Commercial Affairs and Business Activities of the Department of State. The International Copyright Panel has as its Co-Chairman the Register of Copyright of the Library of Congress. In addition, it has 26 public members prominent in education, publishing, broadcasting and communications...
Page 2 - Commerce have not developed effective country market trade promotion programs and general commercial strategies.