1: Recommandations
The President's Export Council is the only national advisory committee on export expansion and the only one that encourages
export expansion in the private sector. The Council also makes recommendations on broad, national policies and programs affecting
trade. Other trade-related committees exist with a narrower focus on trade negotiations, and most offer advice only on specific
industry or sectoral matters. The Council is the only advisory committee on trade whose membership includes all the major
actors in the trade field: representatives from the Administration, the Congress, industry, agriculture, and labor. Therefore,
it is the only forum that allows for discussion and debate among these various factions prior to providing advice to the President.
Because of the Council's unique membership, high-visibility, and access to policymakers, it can be a more credible and effective
advocacy group than other advisory groups. The companies represented also have considerable resources to do research and other
work gratis. Hiring consultants to do this same work would cost the Government considerably more.
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