“We have foreign commercial services, officers in every embassy and they're there to help us companies… I used to call them the country's sales force.”

Future Commerce · Former Commerce Secretary Gutierrez on Leadership, AI, and America’s Role In the World

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Place foreign commercial service officers in every U.S. embassy to act as a country-wide sales force for American companies

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