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Trade
Education:
Connecting Organizations
with the Global Economy
Realizing the definite impact that trade
can have on the global economy, for the past decade, corporations, associations
and other leading organizations have been getting involved in important
global and trade issues. It is very important for organizations to "step
up efforts to educate and mobilize their constituencies about the challenges
and opportunities of global trade," explains C. Michael Armstrong and
Joseph Gorman, Chairmen of the President’s Export Council. For the
President’s Export Council, "trade education" has become
" its number one priority," encouraging many leading organizations
to now participate in trade education activities.
The implementation of Trade Education Techniques in businesses
has brought them many benefits and unexpected opportunities. "Certain
trade education practices have emerged as such highly successful techniques
to communicate with their members/employees that they prove effective regardless
of the organization’s affiliation of specific point of view."
Former Secretary of Commerce William Daley designated November
10 as National Trade Education Day in 1999 with the purpose of encouraging
"businesses and governmental officials to meet with workers, students,
teachers and local civic leaders to discuss the benefits and challenges
of trade." To learn more about the National Trade Education Day, visit
The U.S. Department of Commerce Website.
To learn more about how certain organizations have implemented
Trade Education Techniques via mobilization of organizations’ grassroots
members, publications, or the Internet, you can visit the Websites of the
following organizations that have chosen to "Go Global." |
These organizations in particular have taken
advantage of the Internet as a method for trade education and activation.
Other greatly contributing organizations:
ABB, Inc.
The Boeing Company
Cargill, Inc.
Case New Holland Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Eastman Chemical Company
Eastman Kodak Co.
ECAT
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Hewlett-Packard
Ingersoll-Rand Company
Motorola Inc.
National Association of Manufacturers
Proctor and Gamble
Southern Growth Policies Board
TRW Inc.
The Business Roundtable
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
United Parcel Service
United Steelworkers
Source:
"Best Practices" In Trade Education:
A Report to the President Prepared by the President’s Export Council
Subcommittee on Trade Promotion.
This report and others are available at PEC’s
website.
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