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  • Business Roundtable Supports Japan’s Inclusion in the TPP

    15th March 2013

    Business Roundtable welcomes the announcement by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Japan will seek to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Japan, the world’s third largest economy, would become the 12th country to participate in negotiations to achieve what would be the largest regional U.S. trade and investment agreement ever negotiated.

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  • BRT Commends Decision to Launch U.S.-EU Trade Negotiations

    13th February 2013

    Business Roundtable (BRT) praised the U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth for recommending the launch of U.S.-EU trade and investment negotiations and U.S. and EU leaders for announcing their decision to each take the steps necessary to launch the negotiations.

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  • Did you know? Newly exporting firms increase employment almost four times faster than non-exporting firms.

Impact of Trade in the United States

With more than 95 percent of the world’s population – representing 80 percent of the world’s purchasing power – outside the United States, U.S. economic growth and job creation depend on opening international markets so U.S. companies and their employees can sell more American products and services to these customers. International trade and investment agreements are critical tools for opening markets and helping U.S. businesses and their employees compete in those markets and support American jobs. Use this application to learn more about the benefits to each U.S. state of: (1) trade in general; (2) trade with our most recent Free Trade Agreement partners South Korea and Colombia; and (3) with Russia, which has now committed to open its market as part of joining the World Trade Organization later this year. To view the Russia trade data for each U.S. state and understand why companies and their employees in each state need Congress to pass Russia PNTR legislation—

  1. Choose a state in the map or in the drop-down above.
  2. On the next webpage that appears, click on the “Russia PNTR” box, and then scroll down and click on the “State Fact Sheet” button to download the Russia PNTR fact sheet for your state.

To learn more about Business Roundtable’s activities to promote international trade and investment more generally, visit www.brt.org.

Key Trade Statistics

Key Trade Statistics 2004 2008 % change
Number of jobs tied to trade Info 31,306,644 38,418,829 22.7%
Total value of exports to other countries $814.8 billion $1.3 trillion 59.5%

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