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The International Trade Administration (ITA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes United States exports of nonagricultural U.S. services and goods. The United States Department of Commerce is a Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. ...


The ITA's stated goals are to

  1. Provide practical information to help Americans select markets and products.
  2. Ensure that Americans have access to international markets as required by the U.S. trade agreements.
  3. Safeguard Americans from unfair competition from dumped and subsidized imports.

ITA consists of four sub-units. These are: Import Administration (IA), Market Access and Compliance (MAC), Manufacturing and Services (MAS) and the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service (US&FCS). This article needs cleanup. ... A trade pact is a wide ranging tax, tariff and trade pact that usually also includes investment guarantees. ... In economics, dumping can refer to any kind of predatory pricing, and is by most definitions a form of price discrimination. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...


The ITA was created on January 2, 1980 and is headed by the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade. Persons who have held that office are listed below. January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

  • 2005-present: Franklin L. Lavin
  • 2005: Peter Lichtenbaum (acting)
  • 2005: Timothy J. Hauser (acting)
  • 2005: Rhonda Kennam (acting)
  • 2001-2005: Grant D. Aldonas
  • 2001: Timothy J. Hauser (acting)
  • 2000-2001: Robert S. LaRussa
  • 1997-2000: David L. Aaron
  • 1996-1997: Stuart Eizenstat
  • 1996: Timothy J. Hauser (acting)
  • 1995-1996: David Rothkopf (acting)
  • 1993-1995: Jeffrey E. Garten
  • 1992-1993: Timothy J. Hauser (acting)
  • 1989-1992: J. Michael Farren
  • 1987-1989: Allen Moore
  • 1985-1987: S. Bruce Smart
  • 1981-1985: Lionel H. Olmer
  • 1980-1981: Robert E. Herzstein

Frank L. Lavin the current Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, heading the International Trade Administration. ... David Laurence Aaron (b. ... Stuart E. Eizenstat was sworn into office as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on July 19, 1999. ... David J. Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in U.S. foreign policy and economic strategy. ...

See also

The United States Commercial Service is the trade promotion arm of the International Trade Administration within the United States Department of Commerce and helps U.S. small and medium sized business grow international sales by providing: World class market research Trade events that promote your product or service to qualified...

External links

  • International Trade Administration website
  • Records of the Office of Export Supply 1949-1959
  • Records of the Export Control Investigations Staff 1948-1962

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International Trade Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (146 words)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes United States exports of manufactured goods, nonagricultural commodities, and services.
Ensure that Americans have access to international markets as required by the U.S. trade agreements.
The ITA was created on January 2 1980 and is headed by the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, who are listed below.
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