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Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker issued the following statement on the confirmation of Arun M. Kumar as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service in the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration.