National Export Strategy, 2008. The New Global Main Street

摘要

U.S. exporters are hitting their stride in the global economy, with record exports making an increasingly important contribution to overall U.S. economic growth. The prospects for U.S. exports are better than any time in recent memory across sectors and for U.S. companies large and small, due to the rapid growth of foreign markets and favorable terms of trade. The services sector continues to make an outsized contribution to growth in exports and improvements in the trade balance. And for smaller firms in particular, e-commerce continues to shrink distances and transaction costs between buyers and sellers. American firms are maintaining their innovative and competitive edge in the world while developing their own new culture of exporting. In the process, they are discovering that in addition to their local Main Street USA, they now have access to the new global Main Street.