United States Department of Commerce
Appearance
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File:Seal of the United States Department of Commerce.svg Seal of the U.S. Department of Commerce | |
File:Flag of the United States Department of Commerce.svg Flag of the U.S. Department of Commerce | |
File:Commerce Building view from Mall 2.jpg The Herbert C. Hoover Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Commerce. | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | February 14, 1903 |
Jurisdiction | United States of America |
Headquarters | Herbert C. Hoover Building 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., U.S. Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Employees | 46,608 (2018)[1] |
Annual budget | US$9.67 billion (2018) US$14.2 billion (est. 2010) US$9.3 billion (est. 2011) US$8.6 billion (2014)[2] |
Agency executives | |
Website | www |
Footnotes | |
The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic development. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903. It was subsequently renamed to the Department of Commerce on March 4, 1913, and its bureaus and agencies specializing in labor were transferred to the new Department of Labor. The Headquarters of the Department of Commerce are located at the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington D.C.
References[change]
- ↑ "About the Department Of Commerce".
- ↑ "Department Of Commerce – FY 2014 Budget" (PDF). www.tamuc.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-08. Retrieved October 15, 2017.