About Trade
"Free and fair trade helps secure a future of freedom and promise."
President George W. Bush
World Trade Week Proclomation
May 16, 2008
Facts Of The Day
July 2, 2008
Jobs supported by exports and linked to manufacturing account for an estimated 3.6 percent of Colorado's total private-sector employment. In 2006, over one-sixth (18.6 percent) of all manufacturing workers in Colorado depended on exports for their jobs.
Source: Prepared by the International Trade Administration
July 1, 2008
Iowa's export shipments of merchandise in 2007 totaled $9.7 billion. Iowa's export shipments grew 84 percent from 2003 to 2007, the thirteenth largest percentage gain among the states, and well above the national percentage growth of 60 percent.
Source: Prepared by the International Trade Administration
