States Trade Representative

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“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
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“I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each of these works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.”
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