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Speaker 1: I'm Katherine Cowdery. Wall Street extended the rally, sending the

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Speaker 1: five zero percent. And that's a Bloomberg business flash. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to taking stock with pim Box and Kathleen Hayes

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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Radio. An exit x M Bank stalemate delayed

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Speaker 1: some plane deliveries. That's according to Boeing, a headline that

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Speaker 1: ran on the Bloomberg yesterday. Uh. In fact, Jackie Collins,

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Speaker 1: writing in The New York Times, rites earlier in the

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Speaker 1: week that Tomorrow Thursday is an ignominious anniversary for the

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Speaker 1: government agency that helps finance foreigners purchases of American exports.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to a single senator, it's been a full year

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Speaker 1: that the eighty two year old Export Inport Bank could

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Speaker 1: approve deals exceeding ten million dollars, a limit that rules

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Speaker 1: out high dollar deals on airplanes, power generations, heavy equipment,

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Speaker 1: and New Year actors. No wonder that Boeing has reported

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Speaker 1: that news. Now, let's introduce a man who is the

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Speaker 1: head of the x M Bank is here to talk

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Speaker 1: to us about what's going on and what it means

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Speaker 1: for exports from the United States. Fred Hawkbird Chairman and

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Speaker 1: President of the Export Import Bank of the United States,

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Speaker 1: joining me in studio. Thank you for coming in, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me so. First of all, remind people what

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Speaker 1: the excellent Bank is. It's not quite a hundred years old,

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Speaker 1: but it's been around for a while, around for a while.

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Speaker 1: The Export Inport Bank United States is a trade bank

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Speaker 1: for the United States. We've had it since nineteen two.

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Speaker 1: FDR started it. And the understanding that to create more jobs,

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Speaker 1: we need to do more exporting and their risks and

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Speaker 1: both real and imagine from exporting. So the x and

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Speaker 1: Bank was created to support US jobs and we sell

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Speaker 1: goods overseas, level the playing field with foreign competitors, and

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Speaker 1: phill the market gaps and emerging economies places like that. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think over the years, people who think the exce

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Speaker 1: and Bank isn't worth it isn't needed. Maybe I should

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Speaker 1: say is that this is a globalized world. Small even

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Speaker 1: small and medium businesses are exporting much more than they

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Speaker 1: used to, not just the big ones. But as you

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Speaker 1: get ready to release your Competitiveness Reports Summary for twenty fifteen,

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Speaker 1: you have some some factoids that I think paint a

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Speaker 1: somewhat different picture. You say, for example, that export credit

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Speaker 1: agencies are much more important now and finding financing exports

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Speaker 1: e c a s are getting a lot more aggressive

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Speaker 1: on behalf of their exporters. And I guess that's your

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Speaker 1: argument for the U S and two. Well, right now,

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Speaker 1: you know, when we look at global growth, global growth

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Speaker 1: is slowing. One of the key drivers of growth around

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Speaker 1: the world, not just in the United States, but his exports.

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Speaker 1: You see monetary policy as somewhat run its course. It's

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Speaker 1: exports to drive their economy and drive job growth, and

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Speaker 1: hence it's far more competitive and much tougher and much

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Speaker 1: more competitive environment for US companies competing. There eight five

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Speaker 1: export credit agencies in sixty seven countries around the world,

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Speaker 1: and yet in last year more than sevent of medium

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Speaker 1: and long term export credit support fell outside the o

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Speaker 1: o e c D. The Organization for Economic Corporation Development

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Speaker 1: sets the rules of the road. It's a transparent system

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Speaker 1: and for many years that governed how governments supported their exporters.

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Speaker 1: But with the rise of China and the rise of

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Speaker 1: some other Asian countries, but particularly China, UM they fall

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Speaker 1: outside of the rules and that makes it much more

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Speaker 1: competitive for U S companies try and compete so we

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Speaker 1: get our fair share. China, as you point out, responsible

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Speaker 1: for ten times more export financing than the US, up

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Speaker 1: China has taken advantage of so many aspects of world trade,

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Speaker 1: and trade with the US helped hollow out our manufacturing.

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Speaker 1: You know. Uh so, I guess that would be another

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Speaker 1: reason why you say that we've got to step up

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Speaker 1: and do sending and you need more support. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: a little over a dozen of years years ago, Kathleen,

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Speaker 1: we were the largest single export in the entire world.

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Speaker 1: We are number two today, number two to China. I

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Speaker 1: believe there's no reason looking in American innovation and products

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Speaker 1: and quality, we can't be number one again. But companies

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Speaker 1: need the tools. XM Bank is one of those tools.

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Speaker 1: We can't rely on trade sanctions alone to drive our economy.

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Speaker 1: So why does the U. S. Senator richarch shall Bey,

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Speaker 1: Republican from Alabama, once a bank supporter UH, block the

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Speaker 1: renewal of the regulations the go ahead that you need

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Speaker 1: to move ahead, and it's been almost a year that

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Speaker 1: you've had to pull back. Well, probably should ask Chairman

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Speaker 1: Shelby that directly. I would say that let's remember, two

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Speaker 1: overwhelming of the House, including a majority of all the

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Speaker 1: Republicans of the House, voted for it. So it is

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Speaker 1: quizzical why Senator Shelby has not had a hearing so

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Speaker 1: that we can evaluate the nominated the board. And let

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Speaker 1: me just add the nominee was recommended to President Obama

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Speaker 1: by Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, and it's a Republican

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Speaker 1: seat on our board. Do you cost us taxpyer money?

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Speaker 1: We actually make money. Last year we sent four hundred

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars to the taxpayers, UH, and since President

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Speaker 1: Obama was elected, it's north of two billion dollars we

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Speaker 1: have sent to the taxpayers. Essentially, that's the profit we

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Speaker 1: make and that even the Wall Streetjournal refers to appress

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Speaker 1: So what is your message to Senator Shelby, What is

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Speaker 1: your message to the American people? Who I don't know

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Speaker 1: what what American people can do about this, except maybe

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Speaker 1: the the citizens of Richard Shelby stayed in voting amount

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Speaker 1: of office. He's a very powerful senator. That doesn't look

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Speaker 1: likely to happen anytime soon. Well, the key thing is

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Speaker 1: we're talking about us jobs and last year we supported

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Speaker 1: a hundred nine thousand jobs. That numbers down this year

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Speaker 1: less that we're doing less than half the business of

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Moti. We're looking at a nuclear power facility

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Speaker 1: for India. Without the X and Bank, that project will

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Speaker 1: not go forward and those jobs will go elsewhere, not

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Speaker 1: to the land state. So we're talking about real jobs

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Speaker 1: in small communities around this country that are in jeopardy.

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Speaker 1: So many of them have to do with manufacturing, a

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Speaker 1: very beaten up sector, but one that has been coming back.

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Speaker 1: Wilfred Hawkberg, we hope to have you back. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: follow us very closely. It's a fascinating story. Chairman and

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Speaker 1: President of the Export Import Bank of the United states

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Speaker 1: they were competitive. Survey out tomorrow. I'm Kathleen Hayes. Thanks

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