WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary Gina Raimondo met with French Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery Bruno Le Maire to discuss the strong, longstanding U.S.-France commercial partnership and to follow up on goals and outcomes from the 1 st U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) ministerial, held September 29, 2021, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Secretary Raimondo and Minister Le Maire also...

NOAA’s Climate Program Office today launched a newly redesigned version of Climate.gov , NOAA’s award-winning, flagship website that provides the public with clear, timely, and science-based information about climate. The redesign expands the site’s already significant capacity to connect Americans with the resources they need to understand and plan for climate-related risks. Americans are facing...

President Biden took action yesterday to restore protections to three national monuments that had been dismantled by the previous administration. The new proclamations, signed yesterday, reestablish the boundaries in place before President Trump’s unprecedented action to drastically reduce the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, and restore management...

Alongside more than 20 major federal agencies as part of President Biden’s whole of government approach to confronting the climate crisis, the Department of Commerce released its Climate Action Plan for Adaptation and Resilience on October 7, 2021 . With a substantial portion of the United States gross domestic product dependent on weather and climate, supporting economic growth and resiliency and...

Supply chain issues have been a key challenge coming out of this unprecedented economic crisis resulting from this pandemic. For months, the Biden-Harris Administration has been engaged in a whole-of-government response, led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture. In June, the White House launched the Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force to address short-term supply chain...

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong signed a Memorandum of Understanding implementing the U.S.-Singapore Partnership for Growth and Innovation (the Partnership), which aims to strengthen U.S.-Singapore trade and investment collaboration. The Partnership expands and elevates work done under the U.S.-Singapore Infrastructure...

Today, Secretary Gina Raimondo met with Mr. Khaldoon Al Mubarak, the Chief Executive Officer of the Mubadala Investment Company (an Emirati state-owned holding company), to congratulate him on GlobalFoundries’ announcement to expand their semiconductor fabrication plant in Malta, New York. The Secretary also encouraged Mr. Al Mubarak to work with the Commerce Department as the Mubadala Investment...

Today, Secretary Gina Raimondo and Minister for Foreign Trade of Sweden, Anna Hallberg, met and discussed opportunities to cooperate on climate and other green economy initiatives. The Secretary and Minister Hallberg also discussed other areas to improve bilateral trade and investment, including cloud services and other digital economy topics. The Secretary and Minister committed to deepen...