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...
Tim Tangredi, Chief Executive Officer of Dais Analytic, highlights how Smart Cities – Smart Growth trade mission to China will benefit his company, the American economy and...
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...
In 1897, when The Dow Chemical Company first opened its doors in Michigan, our founder most likely wouldn’t have known that more than a century later, Dow would be one of the...
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...
The U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, and Transportation are reviewing claims that three foreign airlines – Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways – have...
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. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews today announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce is partnering with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to make it...
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 Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is one of the primary agencies charged with administering an effective U.S. export control system. The U.S...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
On Wednesday afternoon, I delivered remarks in Hilderbran, North Carolina at a ribbon-cutting ceremony where we officially opened the new Canadian-based Peds® Legwear (PEDS)...
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...
When we look back at 2014, it will be seen as the year our country regained its economic confidence, symbolized by the nearly 3 million jobs our economy created in 2014.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker visited Islamabad, Pakistan this week as part of the Administration’s efforts to boost bilateral trade and investment with Pakistan...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced the names of the American and international innovators, visionaries, and thought leaders participating in the 2015...
Tim Leatherman was born and raised in Oregon. He grew up with a knack for inventing things, and while traveling abroad as a young OSU graduate, he found he needed a pliers-...
Addressing an audience of more than 400 people, many attending from overseas, the Secretary applauded the work being done by the Pakistani and American private sector...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan today to launch the first-ever U.S.–Pakistan Economic Partnership Week. Her visit is critical to the...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today delivered the keynote address at the Investment and Entrepreneurship Conference in Tunis, Tunisia. The conference brought...