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Improving Exports Could
Help EE Employment, IEEE-USA Webzine Says
WASHINGTON (12 November 2004)
— The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) is working to help
technology companies increase their exports, which could in turn open more
employment doors for engineers and other workers, according to a
recent article
in the IEEE-USA Today's Engineer
monthly Webzine.
"There's really a huge untapped market," said
Neal Burnham, deputy assistant secretary of U.S.
Commercial Services. "We estimate that 95
percent of the market for small companies is
outside the United States."
The DOC's Commercial Services program includes
exhibits by 39 government agencies that attend
nearly three dozen major trade shows around the
country. The agencies are putting a significant
focus on China, where significant growth is
expected. "It's a very dynamic place where they
need a lot of things," Burnham said.
DOC officials note that companies increasing
their exports usually increase their employee
counts. That's a big positive in electronics,
which continues to see shrinkage in employment
despite signs of an economic up tick. A key
benefit of the government efforts is that many
services are free, while others have lower costs
than similar services provided by companies in
foreign countries, according to Today's
Engineer.
The entire article is available at
http://www.todaysengineer.org/July04/exports.asp.
IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE,
created in 1973 to advance the public good,
while promoting the careers and public-policy
interests of the more than 225,000 electrical,
electronics, computer and software engineers who
are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the
world's largest technical professional society.
For more information, go to
http://www.ieeeusa.org.
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