July 14, 2014
Good morning. Last week, Secretary Pritzker traveled to China where she
toured the Shanghai Free Trade Zone ahead of the Strategic and Economic
Dialogue (S&ED) in Beijing.
Secretary Pritzker joined Secretaries Kerry, Lew, Moniz
and Ambassador Froman, among others, in the US delegation at the annual
S&ED meetings to discuss long-term strategic and economic objectives
between the U.S and China.
This week, be sure to read the blog posts about NIST’s
nationwide effort to develop a disaster resilience framework, BEA’s blog on the
export control reform , as well as NOAA’s data on shipwrecks and obstructions.
Best,
Justin
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Visits Shanghai Ahead of the Strategic and
Economic Dialogue - Secretary Pritzker met with a number of CEOs and
business leaders from companies doing work in China.
Improving
Resilience by Building a Weather-Ready Nation - NOAA's mission of reducing
loss of life, property, and the disruption from high impact weather and
water-related events has existed since its inception.
Commerce's
NIST to Host Next Meeting on Developing a Collaborative Nationwide Disaster
Resilience Framework - As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan,
Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is leading a
collaborative nationwide effort to develop a framework that U.S. communities
can use to prepare for, resist, respond to, and recover from hazard events more
rapidly and at a lower cost.
Five
Things Small Businesses Should Know About Export Control Reform - The
President’s Export Control Reform initiative is transferring tens of thousands
of less sensitive military items from the State Department’s jurisdiction to
the more flexible Commerce regulations. Here are five things small businesses
should know about the export control reform.
Coast
Survey improves access to data on thousands of wrecks and obstructions - Coast
Survey has improved the Wrecks and Obstructions Database, giving everyone easy
access to new records to explore.
Open
Data Takes Center Stage at ESRI User Conference Next Week - Open federal
data spurs civic innovation and business growth, underpinning Commerce
Department’s priority of data in the five year strategic plan.
The Economic and Statistics Administration wrote
5 Q’s for U.S. Department of Commerce’s Under Secretary of Economic Affairs
Mark Doms on their blog last week.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis wrote Looking
for Economic Information on Coastal Areas? Visit BEA’s Website on their
blog last week.
May
2014 wholesale inventories were $532.7 billion, up 0.5 percent from the
revised April level and up 7.9 percent from May 2013. Sales were $453.2
billion, up 0.7 percent from the revised April level and up 6.6 percent from
May 2013.
Commerce Data in the News:
The Wall Street Journal covered the joint
release by BEA and Census of the May trade report: “U.S.
Trade Gap Narrows 5.6% as Exports Surge.”
The
International
Trade Administration’s 2013 Overseas Visitation Estimates, and Characteristics
of Travelers to U.S. States and Cities is highlighted in a recent eTurbo News article: US international visitation up three percent.
The Washington Post
cites a Census Bureau fertility report to write that fewer women are married when they give birth
to their first child, although a growing number are living with the baby’s
father without being wed, in the article More Young Women Give Birth Without Wedding Rings,
Census Study Shows.
Bloomberg
BusinessWeek looks at Census Bureau economic statistics in the article Beer is Better Than Wine for the American
Worker to write that U.S. breweries paid
higher salaries and benefits than wineries did in 2012.
Indian Country
Today cites statistics from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey
to show that 15 percent of Native American homes speak a native language, with
Navajo spoken the most, in the article 7
Most Popular Native American Languages in U.S.
Time magazine looks
at the Census Bureau report “Changes in Areas with Concentrated Poverty,”
derived from Current Population Survey data, saying that living in poor
neighborhoods adds burdens to low-income families in the article U.S. Census Bureau Shows More People Living
in Areas of Poverty.
Data Releases This Week: Advance
Monthly Retail Sales June (Census); Manufacturing and Trade: Inventories and
Sales May (Census); New Residential Construction June (Census)
Today, Secretary Pritzker will speak about expanding economic opportunity
through open data at the International Environmental Systems Research
Institute’s (Esri) User Conference in San Diego, CA. Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Mark Doms, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) Administrator, Kathryn Sullivan, will also attend. While
in San Diego, Secretary Pritzker will meet with a group of local public and
private sector business leaders to highlight the next phase of the
Administration’s National Export Initiative (NEI/NEXT) and discuss ways that
cities and communities across the country can better integrate exporting into
their economic development plans.
Also
today, Deputy Census
Director, Nancy Potok, will speak at the 9th International Conference on
Teaching Statistics in Flagstaff, AZ about challenges to evidence-based policy
making in the decentralized U.S. statistical system.
Additionally today, The San Francisco MBDA Business Center will host an Open House and
ribbon cutting ceremony to officially announce their service to the local
minority business community. MBDA National Director Alejandra Castillo and
other community stake holders will attend and provide remarks.
On
today as well, Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade, Ken Hyatt, will
participate in the opening ceremonies for the Farnborough Air Show in the
United Kingdom.
On
Tuesday, NIST Acting Director, Willie May, will give the President’s Address at
the 99th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM)
in Detroit, MI.
On Tuesday as well, EDA Assistant Secretary, Jay Williams, will attend the Annual
Field Management Meeting of the U.S. Small Business Administration in
Cleveland, OH. He will highlight the Economic Development Partnerships, such as
the Youngstown Initiative, as an introduction to a panel discussion of economic
development directors from Youngstown, Cleveland, Shaker Heights, and Cuyahoga
County.
On
Wednesday, Acting Deputy Secretary, Bruce Andrews, will participate in a
one-on-one interview with The Atlantic’s Washington Editor-at-Large, Steve
Clemons, on the importance of skills training and manufacturing at the
organization’s “Building the Future: Manufacturing’s Software Revolution” event
in Philadelphia, PA.
Also
on Wednesday, BIS Under Secretary for Industry and Security, Eric Hirschhorn,
will provide an update on the Export Control Reform Initiative in a webinar for
the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) in Washington, D.C.
On
Thursday, Secretary Pritzker will once again highlight NEI/NEXT and the
Administration’s efforts to expand economic growth through exports in Memphis,
TN at a “Made in Rural America” regional export forum, hosted by the Delta
Regional Authority. This will be the second of five forums that are a part of
President Obama’s “Made in Rural America” export and investment initiative.
On
Friday, Secretary Pritzker will travel to Benton Harbor, MI to participate in
an panel discussion with Jeff Fetting, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Whirlpool Corporation, and other Michigan business leaders about the importance
of innovation, a key priority of the Department of Commerce’s “Open for
Business Agenda.” The “Innovation Forum,” which will take place at Whirlpool’s
corporate headquarters, will spotlight U.S. manufacturers investing in
innovation.
Also
on Friday, MBDA National Director, Alejandra Castillo, will deliver keynote
remarks at the opening session of the National Association of Black Hotel
Owners’ International Multicultural & Heritage Tourism Summit and Trade
Show in Miami, FL.
Secretary Pritzker along with Secretaries Jack Lew, John
Kerry, Ernest Moniz, and Ambassador Mike Froman at the Strategic
and Economic Dialogue in Beijing, China.
U.S.
Breweries on the Rise - A Census Bureau graphic shows that the number of
U.S. breweries more than doubled - from 398 to 869 - between 2007 and 2012,
according to the 2012 Economic Census Industry Series. The breweries industry
reported $28.3 billion in shipments in 2012, an increase of nearly 33.6 percent
since 2007.
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