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Expanding Markets
Trade is essential to creating jobs and other opportunities. Unless people living in poor countries have access to markets, they will not be able to escape poverty or give their children a better future. Countries that have entered export markets through trade tend to grow faster than those that have not.
Many developing countries have faced hurdles in realizing the potential gains offered by increased trade -- weak infrastructure, trade barriers, government policies that have failed to promote investment, economic certainty and geography. The United States supports trade reform at both the global and individual country levels to help developing countries take advantage of new markets.
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