The administration has announced an easing of sanctions against Myanmar, a move which the U.S. Chamber and others in the U.S. business community have long advocated.  While our competitors in China, Japan, and increasingly the EU and elsewhere pursued commercial opportunities in the market, U.S. sanctions forced our companies to sit on the sidelines.  U.S.

The administration honored 41 companies and organizations today at the White House for their contributions to increasing American exports.

Yesterday, the Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement went into effect. Check out photos from yesterday’s event at the U.S. Chamber featuring U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX).

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but an ugly picture on your company website could easily send potential customers running.

The Wall Street Journal reports on two small business owners who learned that lesson the hard way:

“Sarah E. Endline, founder of chocolate maker sweetriot, found that out when she put blurry photos of her chocolate-covered cacao nibs on the company website in 2005.

While in 6^th grade Rebecca Zerbo of Boca Raton, Florida had an experience that is all too common in this country – she was bullied.  To make herself feel better, Rebecca started to write herself positive notes to keep in her pocket to remind her how special she really was and with that her company, Positive Pocket was born. 

The Department of the Interior (DOI) trotted out a report claiming oil and gas companies are dawdling around and not developing oil and gas leases on federal land.

Local school boards play a critical role in shaping the direction of U.S. education reform. Yet low voter turnout and frequent member turnover means that school boards can be largely dominated by special interests, such as vendors seeking district contracts, employee unions, and single-issue advocacy groups who have their own agendas. And those agendas do not include improving your child’s education or the development of a strong American workforce.

A Pew poll taken in April found that 61% of voters listed energy as “very important," and in March, Rasmussen Reports found that 54% of likely voters said energy was a “very important” issue. With energy and gas prices on voters’ minds, the American Petroleum Institute (API) today released a report, 

To kick off National Transportation Week, held May 13-19, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) released some “fast facts” about the nation’s transportation infrastructure and its relationship to the national economy.  The data, part of a larger economic profile authored by the association’s chief economist, Dr.

Ron Somers, president of U.S.-India Business Council, stirred things up last week with this hard-hitting op-ed on the slow pace of Indian economic reforms: