Establishing the Washington State Advisory Council on International Trade and Development International trade is the most important feature of Washington State's growing economy. One out of every five jobs in our state is dependent on foreign trade. The primary industries of our state such as agriculture, aerospace, and other high technology manufacturing and service industries, as well as wood products and forestry, must increasingly rely on export markets for maintaining business and employment expansion.
World trade is our future.
Washington of the 21st Century is at the crossroads of a new global economic order. To achieve our full potential, it is necessary for Washington State to assess its strengths and weaknesses as a trading partner and to constantly seek to improve our state's international business climate. There in established the Washington State Advisory Council on International Trade Development. The purpose of the Council is to marshal the Collective expertise Of its nineteen members in order to advise the state of those strategies and initiatives which will most effectively promote and encourage international business development by Washington State governments, private nonprofit development agencies, businesses, industry, agriculture, and citizens. The Governor shall appoint the Chairman of the Council from the membership of the Council.