; Whereas multilateral organizations, like the World Trade Organization, provide a forum for nations to resolve their trade disputes peacefully and in an internationally recognized fashion; Whereas the Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security maintain and enforce our Nation’s trade remedy laws, ensuring that American businesses, workers, and manufacturers are not being undercut by unfair trade practices; Whereas the Secretaries of Commerce and the Treasury license and regulate the foreign-trade zones which provide special custom’s procedures for companies and supply chains, and keep jobs in the United States; Whereas the Department of Commerce also aims to promote United States exports, including by maintaining United States Export Assistance Centers around the country which assist small- and medium-sized businesses with the process of exporting, including understanding foreign markets, and locating foreign buyers; Whereas the Department of Commerce’s Foreign Commercial Service works with both the government and the private sector to promote United States exports and protect United States commercial interests abroad; and Whereas the Export-Import Bank of the United States is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government and provides United States exporters needed loans to facilitate export activities, or by providing liquidity enabling United States business to accept new business, international sales, and compete in the international marketplace: Now, therefore, be it