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US trade trip to China likely to create deals

Updated: 2010-05-14 00:00

WASHINGTON — US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on Wednesday that his upcoming trip to China will seek a number of deals between the two countries.

Forty-six business executives will join him in China and Indonesia from May 15-25 on the first cabinet-level trade mission of Obama administration.

“This trade mission is really an opportunity for win-win scenarios for both American companies, their workers here in the United States, as well as for the people and the governments of both Indonesia and China to address their goals of becoming more energy efficient,” the top US trade official told reporters.

Twenty-four US companies will join Locke for the China portion of the trade mission, and 10 US companies will travel to Indonesia. The delegation will make stops in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Jakarta, Indonesia.

The commerce secretary said the mission aims to promote exports of leading US technologies related to clean energy, energy efficiency, and electric energy storage, transmission and distribution.

Locke, the first Chinese-American commerce secretary, recalled his visits to Shanghai, saying he looks forward to visiting the World Expo.

“I’m looking forward to going to the World Expo in Shanghai, and I’m very proud that the United States has a pavilion,” he said. “I’ve seen many pictures of some of the pavilions. They look spectacular.”

 

Xinhua News Agency