Manufacturing
Initiative

Manufacturing and Services (MAS) is dedicated to enhancing the global competitiveness of U.S. industry, expanding its market access, and increasing exports.

MAS undertakes industry trade analysis, shapes U.S. trade policy, participates in trade negotiations, organizes trade capacity building programs, and evaluates the impact of domestic and international economic and regulatory policies on U.S. manufacturers and service industries. MAS works with other U.S. agencies in developing a public policy environment that advances U.S. competitiveness at home and abroad.

Through the Commerce Department's Manufacturing Initiative, MAS is addressing the challenges facing U.S. manufacturers and has created an Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and Services, established the President's Manufacturing Council, and created an Office of Industry Analysis.

Under the newly created Standards Initiative, MAS seeks to remove standards-related trade barriers through effective collaboration domestically and internationally.

MAS reaches out to U.S. businesses through its Industry Sector Advisory Committees, the President's Manufacturing Council, and the President's Export Council incorporating U.S. industry advice on domestic and international economic and regulatory policies.