When Sabrina Moyle and her sister started Hello!Lucky in 2003, their business plan did not involve selling their letterpress greeting cards overseas. It did, however,...
As a participant of a special 24-American company delegation to China, led by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Dr...
This week, Secretary Pritzker and Energy Department Deputy Secretary Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall kicked off their joint energy focused trade mission in Beijing, China...
LanzaTech has been operating in China since 2010 and has offices in Shanghai as well as two joint ventures with leading Chinese steel mills, Baosteel and Shougang. We...
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker commended the introduction of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA-2015),...
The Department of Commerce and Department of Energy’s 2015 joint business development trade mission to China marks SolarReserve’s third participation in a remarkably well-...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker participated in an armchair discussion titled the “Collaborative Innovation Workshop” at the China Executive Leadership Academy...
In 2014, two daredevils broke into a construction site and climbed to the top of the second tallest building in the world: the Shanghai Tower. You may recognize it from their...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today delivered remarks on the bilateral commercial relationship between the United States and China at the China Financial...
As part of this week’s joint trade mission to China, Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall spoke at Microsoft’s Beijing campus. Delivering remarks to Chinese...
This is the first trade mission of our Administration to be designated as a “presidential mission,” which underscores President Obama’s deep commitment to a strong and...
Today is a very sad day for our Department. On behalf of all of us at the Department of Commerce, I offer my deepest sympathy to the family of Lawrence Buckner, the...
There are 11.7 million reasons to lead on trade. That’s the estimated number of American jobs supported by exports in 2014, our fifth consecutive year of record-breaking...
U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and United States Trade Representative Michael Froman today released a new report that shows that the number of jobs supported by goods...
Today, I led the first meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. This Council is part of the Administration’s effort to write the next...
Good morning. Thank you, Dominic and Karen, for your leadership. And thank you all for joining us today for the first meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today traveled to Richmond, Virginia to join U.S. Senator Tim Kaine for a roundtable meeting with local business owners.
The U.S. Department of Commerce today officially launched the Startup Global initiative, delivering the first in a series of pilot program educational events. The event took...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker issued the following statement today on the release of the February 2015 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services data. The...
Secretary Penny Pritzker on Monday delivered the keynote address at the “Cuba-Forum – Tampa at the Forefront of Historic Change” in Tampa Bay, Florida. During the event,...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today named the Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative (AspenWSI) as the Department of Commerce’s national partner for a...
Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker visited the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando where she toured the university’s Maker Space Labs and...
Secretary Penny Pritzker visited the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., where she toured the university’s Maker Space Labs and joined Sen. Bill Nelson to...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today delivered keynote remarks on the state of the economy, the importance of trade and exports to America’s economic growth, and...
Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker concluded the second SelectUSA Investment Summit, making it clear to the more than 2,600 people from more than 70...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today delivered the keynote address at the National Association of Development Organization’s 2015 Washington Policy Conference in...
A bipartisan group of former Secretaries of Commerce, whose tenures spanned from 1973 to 2012, today released an open letter urging Congress to pass Trade Promotion Authority...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today concluded the second SelectUSA Investment Summit, making it clear to the more than 2,600 people from more than 70 markets,...
With more than 2,600 people from more than 70 markets, and economic development organizations from all corners of the United States, the 2015 SelectUSA Investment Summit has...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today welcomed President Barack Obama to the second-ever SelectUSA Investment Summit. In her introduction, Secretary Pritzker...
Today, as part of the Select USA Investment Summit, I had the honor of joining an impressive group of business leaders, international investors and experts for an in-depth...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that the U.S. Commerce Department will co-chair the Broadband Opportunity Council, a new federal government...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today delivered opening remarks at the 2015 SelectUSA Summit, the Obama Administration’s premier event aimed at attracting foreign...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz today announced they will lead a delegation of 25 American companies on a Business...
Almost a year after we announced that Lufthansa Technik would establish an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Puerto Rico, we are getting ready to...
There is no time like the present to invest in the United States. In fact, the U.S. is rated #1 in the latest A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index for the...
‘Businesses here have awakened to the fact that their next order could come from anywhere. Exporting is a major reason why Kansas City companies—from transportation equipment...
For over 45 years MBDA has been working aggressively to expand the economic footprint of minority business enterprises, also known as MBEs. According to the U.S. Census...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued a statement announcing two new Commerce Department actions focused on strengthening American manufacturing.
More than a decade ago, Ketaki Desai came to the United States from India. She earned her doctorate in biomedical science from Texas A&M before moving to Pittsburgh,...
President Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address at the 2015 SelectUSA Investment Summit, the White House announced today. His remarks will take place on Monday, March...
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker issued the following statement on the confirmation of Manson K. Brown as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today participated in three separate events at the 2015 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas underscoring the...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today visited Austin, Texas, to engage with startups, business incubators and the broader South by Southwest (SXSW) audience to...
On Dec. 17, 2010, a Tunisian street vendor named Mohammed Bouazizi staged a desperate protest against corrupt local officials by setting himself on fire. The act helped...