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May 16-22 is World Trade Week – the week set aside for all of us to commemorate the benefits that global trade can bring to Americans and to people around the world.

Trade doesn’t just lead to fairly priced, more accessible goods and services.

It also creates economic opportunity – trade helps support the creation of new, well-paying jobs that can help us all to support our families and contribute to our communities.

Here at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, we are working not just this week, but every day of the year to bring home the promise of trade to the American people.

Trade is an important part of President Obama’s plan to build on the economic regrowth that American workers and businesses are starting to see here at home.

So USTR is working to open new markets for American businesses and workers, and to enforce America’s rights in the global trading system.

With 95 percent of the world’s consumers living outside of the United States U.S., ensuring that American companies can sell high-quality American-made products overseas is key to their prosperity – and to the country’s.

USTR is working with partner agencies across the government to implement the President’s National Export Initiative; we are going to double American exports which will support 2 million new jobs right here at home in five years.

While it’s only been four months since the President announced this new initiative, American businesses and workers are already seeing – and feeling – the relief and assurance that comes with new job opportunities.

Just this month in Baltimore, Maryland, Marlin Steel Wire Products is hiring more staff – that allows more people to keep roofs over their heads, put food on their tables and feel that sense of pride that comes from have a good job to do.

Companies like Osmonics in Minnesota are working to increase their sales of water purification equipment in Singapore, so they can hire more Minnetonka workers.

And in sea and airports across the U.S., which already support more than 13 million jobs, we’re looking to see more workers hired to pack the cargo ships full of American exports and bring in the goods that American businesses import to sell here at home.

As we grow more trade-supported jobs in this country, men and women in places from Florida to California, from Michigan to Texas, will not only be able to provide for their families and start saving again, but will feel that sense of accomplishment that comes with a full-day’s work.

So, as USTR commemorates World Trade Week, our work to support new opportunities for hard-working Americans will continue.

The Obama Administration won’t leave any jobs on the table.