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Exports, and their promotion, are a crucial component of economic recovery in the United States. By seizing opportunities in new markets, firms can create jobs and help boost the country’s competitiveness in the global economy. Brookings analyses on the export sector explore these goals and what can be done to achieve them at the federal, state and regional levels.

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque).

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Obama’s Mexico Trip: Putting Trade and Investment at the Top of the Agenda

May 2, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte

In an April 30 press conference, President Obama highlighted trade and investment as a key part of the U.S.-Mexico economic partnership. Diana Negroponte examines this relationship and explains what challenges both countries will face in their future trade relations.

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The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings has developed the Metropolitan Export Initiative, a ground-up collaborative effort to help regional civic, business, and political leaders, with their states, create and implement customized Metropolitan Export Plans (MEPs).

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