Secretary Locke Delivers Remarks at CES to Highlight Administration’s Efforts to Promote Innovation, U.S. Exports

Submitted on January 6, 2011 - 7:30pm
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Commerce Secretary Gary Locke visited the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, where he delivered remarks on the Obama administration’s efforts to foster innovation and the President’s National Export Initiative (NEI), which seeks to double U.S. exports by 2015, supporting several million American jobs. 

Locke also discussed Commerce’s International Buyer Program (IBP), a key component of the Department’s export promotion effort. The IBP matches international buyers with U.S. companies that want to export. The Program recruited 34 delegations, consisting of 700 delegates from key markets such as China, Brazil, Vietnam, and Indonesia, to this year’s show – an increase of over 30 percent from the 2010 show.

During the CES, Locke also visited the booths of some small- and medium-sized businesses that have increased their sales to foreign markets with the help of the Commerce Department.

The CES is an annual event hosted by the Consumer Electronics Association, the preeminent trade association that represents more than 2,000 businesses to promote growth in the consumer technology industry.  This year’s CES has more than 2,500 small- and medium-sized businesses showcasing their products and services, as well as presentations by key industry leaders, such as Microsoft, Ford and Verizon.  Remarks

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Submitted on January 7, 2011 - 11:02pm.

What would be nice for budding entrepreneurs is a sector list and rational for those being good exports. We not only need the products but the seed money to gain these exports. Some help in this area would be a boon to lowering unemployment in Silicon Valley. It was unfortunate that I could not meet at Microsoft, I was at the Real Estate board listening to doom and gloom coming from Carl Guardino CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Seems not to be very much a leader that we missed the meeting right around the corner instilling the missing links in business, but instead commiserated over failed Federal policies. Well we now know who to trust.