Government to Urge Small Businesses to Export

Top U.S. trade officials plan to spread out across the country this year to recruit small-business owners in the administration’s effort to double exports by 2015.

A year after President Barack Obama announced the export initiative to help tackle stubbornly high unemployment, the administration is trying to reach out to the group of business owners that account for nearly two-thirds of job creation but less than a third of total goods sold abroad.

"For America to win the future, more small and medium-size businesses must export, because the more small businesses export, the more they produce; the more they produce, the more workers they need, and that means good-paying jobs here at home," U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a statement announcing the outreach program.

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