The two committees of Congress formally charged with jurisdiction for export administration issues are House Foreign Affairs and Senate Banking and Urban Affairs.

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Any country wishing to export GMOs has to notify the clearing-house, so the recipient country can obtain the information it needs to decide the case.

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Chairman Riley Bechtel was recently appointed to the Export Council, a roundtable of executives that advises the White House on trade issues.

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The idea, of course, is that export growth leads to job growth--a much needed political goal for the White House right now.

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Import and export prices will be out Wednesday, and Bernanke is also testifying in front of the House Financial Services Committee that day.

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The Obama administration has made export promotion a central component of its revised economic platform, and last month the White House finalized a long-stalled trade agreement with South Korea.

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He may or may not spell it out, but there is an underlying sense from this White House, as much as the last, of that contradictory feeling that American exceptionalism is a worldwide export.

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