In particular information technologies, which account for a third of our growth. Three years ago, when I first became Commerce Secretary, I would occasionally read something about e-commerce in the business pages. It was hardly a decimal point in world economic statistics. But a few years from now, e-commerce will be a trillion dollar business. We just started taking the 2000 census, counting every person in America as we do every 10 years.
People can even fill out their forms on-line.
Today about 100 million Americans are connected to the Web, and I know here in Bangladesh, people are starting to plug in. If we can bring the world a little closer together by linking it to the Internet, we can spread the economic benefits that it can create, to people in other nations. The Internet is border less, and it will radically change the way we do most things in life. No question, the second reason the American economy is so strong is because of trade. We have kept our markets open, even in tough times.