U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus complained Friday that U.S. exporters are losing big chunks of Colombia's market as the U.S. Congress delays ratification of a free trade agreement signed nearly five years ago.
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As United States Trade Representative, I am a member of President Obama's Cabinet and serve as the President's principal trade advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on trade issues. 
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A select group of chief executives meets for the first time as advisers to President Barack Obama on Thursday, when they will confront the thorny issue of how to trim the U.S. corporate tax rate.
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The Senate Finance Committee chairman is spending the weeklong recess in Brazil and Colombia, where he'll bring attention to a long-stalled trade pact.
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Large swaths of the western and southern U.S. do not have access to wired or fixed wireless broadband, according to a new national broadband map released by two U.S. agencies Thursday.
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Intel chief executive Paul Otellini, just appointed to President Obama's panel on jobs and competitiveness,said Thursday that the chipmaker will build a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will create thousands of new construction, manufacturing and engineering jobs.
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Intel Corp (INTC.O) Chief Executive Paul Otellini will be named to a panel of experts advising President Barack Obama on jobs, the White House said on Friday.
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A bipartisan group of senators is considering legislation that would trigger new taxes and budget cuts if Congress fails to meet a set of mandatory spending targets and other fiscal goals aimed at reducing federal deficits.
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday gave the Obama administration's clearest statement yet that it wants to work with Congress to approve three long-delayed trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama this year.
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The Senate aims to begin consideration next month of a bipartisan bill to revamp the U.S. patent system and reduce the likelihood of what critics see as excessive damage awards,Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday.
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Economists, businessmen, and politicians of every stripe have spent months talking themselves hoarse about how to get the roughly $2 trillion in corporate reserves back into the economy.
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President Obama has reached out to the business community with talk of lowering the corporate tax rate and improving the tax treatment of profits earned abroad by American companies.
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President Obama will roll out a $3.7 trillion budget blueprint Monday that would trim or terminate more than 200 federal programs next year and make key investments in education,transportation and research in a bid to boost the nation's economy and reduce record budget deficits.
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U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told the House Ways and Means Committee on Feb. 9 that the Obama administration is serious about progress on the South Korea, Panama, and Colombia free trade agreements.
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In this remote snow-swept college town rejuvenated in parts by Internet commerce, President Obama on Thursday outlined a plan to create similar economic stories through the expansion of super-fast wireless Internet connections.
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President Obama will unveil today a major wireless initiative aimed at bringing wireless access to 98 percent of the country within five years, building a national public safety broadband network, and promoting wireless innovation and research and development.
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Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) this morning asked for help in getting the Obama administration to send Colombia and Panama free trade legislation to Congress for passage. 
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The Federal Communications Commission will launch an initiative on Wednesday to spur broadband deployment by reducing regulatory barriers. 
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Monday unveiled a plan to overhaul a much-criticized program that helps provide phone service to far-flung rural areas, proposing to focus it on expanding high-speed Internet access to those same locations.
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President Obama urged American businesses on Monday to “get in the game” by letting loose trillions of dollars that they are holding in reserve, saying that they can help create a “virtuous cycle” of more sales, higher demand and greater profits that will put people back to work.
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President Barack Obama urged businesses to join him in an effort to change a “burdensome” corporate tax code, calling for “something smarter, something simpler, something fairer.”
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Intel applauds President Barack Obama's goal to double U.S. exports in five years as a means of sustaining and growing jobs domestically.
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The White House released its Strategy for American Innovation Friday, outlining plans to "out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world."
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As mounting public deficits dominate discourse in Washington and in state capitals throughout the country, leaders from the technology industry said they are eager to help address the problem. The federal government can save $1 trillion over the next decade, claimed Dell CEO Michael Dell and IBM Chairman and CEO Samuel Palmisano, by applying homegrown
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The Technology CEO Council (TCC) met on Tuesday with President Obama and senior members of his administration to discuss proposals related to innovation and U.S. competitiveness. In his recent State of the Union Address, President Obama laid out a national strategy on how innovation and competitiveness can advance the economic recovery and job creation.
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Today, the President met with members of the Technology CEO Council at the White House.  In his State of the Union Address, the President laid out a plan to win the future by investing in American competitiveness, education, and innovation.
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Fresh off a meeting with President Barack Obama, the CEOs of Dell Inc. and IBM Corp. laid out a productivity agenda for the federal government that they say could save the government $1 trillion.
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The CEOs of IBM and Dell have called on U.S. government leaders to put aside their differences and create a long-term agenda to promote innovation and improve the country's competitive stature in the world.
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The heads of IBM Corp. and Dell Inc. this week told President Obama and other White House officials that consolidating data centers is one of the easiest ways to trim federal information technology spending.
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President Obama will be busy today meeting with senior advisers, the Technology CEO Council, his Cabinet,and then Defense Sec. Gates and Vice President Biden but we won't see them. No public events today so no questions to the president.
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Samuel Palmisano, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp., talks with Bloomberg's Kate Andersen Brower about a meeting he and other U.S. technology executives had with President Barack Obama today.
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Several members of the Technology CEO Council met with President Obama Tuesday to discuss some of the proposals announced in his State of the Union address, as well as how to streamline government with new technology.
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Global trade has doubled and bilateral pacts have sprung up since the stalled Doha round began. 
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President Barack Obama on Saturday touted gains made by a Wisconsin renewable energy firm as the kind of innovation that will bolster the United States.
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If you watched the State of the Union this week, you probably heard President Obama talking about America's need to "win the future" by competing innovatively with the rest of the world and through increasing math and science programs in schools and investment in research. 
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South Korea and the United States have finalized the text of a free trade deal, the trade ministry in Seoul said, clearing another hurdle for the ratification of the controversial agreement.
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Warning that the U.S. is being left behind in the global marketplace, business groups called Tuesday for President Barack Obama to finally seek congressional approval for the three trade agreements he inherited from the previous administration.
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Much has been written about Bill Daley's selection as White House chief of staff, a position sometimes called "Chief Javelin Catcher" (a title whose accuracy one of us strongly affirms). 
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President Obama, declaring that the United States can “outcompete any other nation on earth,” called on Saturday for a new era of American innovation and competition, using his weekly address to deliver a pro-growth, pro-trade message that is likely to be at the heart of the State of the Union speech he gives to Congress on Tuesday.
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U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Friday he hopes to near a deal on creating a free-trade bloc in the Asia-Pacific by the time President Barack Obama hosts leaders from the region in November.
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Tech companies are urging Congress this year to consider a tax break designed to entice corporations into bringing billions of dollars in offshore earnings back to the United States. 
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President Barack Obama said deeper relationships between businesses in the U.S. and China are crucial to progress in ties between the two governments.
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For two centuries, America's free market has not only been the source of dazzling ideas and path-breaking products, it has also been the greatest force for prosperity the world has ever known.
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No sooner has a new Congress arrived in Washington than the anti-China-trade rhetoric has started anew.
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After the White House fought hard to complete its negotiations over the South Korea Free Trade Agreement, which was endorsed by the United Automobile Workers and the United Food and Commercial Workers, many expected that a similar deal with Colombia would also move forward. 
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Fresh off an election in which the ballooning budget deficit weighed heavily on voters' minds, a huge bipartisan majority of senators agreed last week on a tax-cut package that would add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt.  
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Based on the headlines, Americans could be forgiven for thinking that the recent U.S.-South Korean trade deal is only about motors and meat. But the agreement includes much more.
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The Obama administration said Wednesday that two days of talks with a high-level delegation from China produced results that should benefit U.S. companies ranging from manufacturers of computer software and wind turbines to beef producers.
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Tech entrepreneur Steve Perlman has his name on more than 100 U.S. patents. He is particularly excited about his latest, but miffed at the same time.
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President Obama touted a proposed free-trade agreement with South Korea today by saying it would help create jobs in the USA, a day after the U.S. government announced that the unemployment rate had jumped to 9.8%.
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SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak approved a new free trade deal with the United States, saying the agreement would bring "huge benefit to both countries".
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