He welcomed its commitments to reduce barriers to foreign investment in services, high-tech goods, energy saving products and high-end manufacturing.

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But some other areas on our list are benefiting from a hitherto unnoted shift of high-end services to lower-cost and often lower-density regions.

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At the same time, Hudson is stepping up investments in high-end services for the intelligence community such as cyber security, having recently hired intelligence insider Larry Prior away from ManTech International to be one of her two executive vice presidents.

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America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.

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