In President Obama's first term, our international economic policy was focused by necessity on putting a floor beneath the global economy even as we rebuilt our economic foundations at home. Early on, this meant urgent diplomacy to end the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. The U.S. sought out the partners and shored up the institutions that stabilized the global economy, from the International Monetary Fund to the G-20. The Obama administration then worked to rebuild the domestic consensus on trade, strengthened and implemented free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama, and launched a government-wide push to double American exports. Each of these steps has hastened and strengthened a recovery that has created nearly 6.5 million private-sector U.S. jobs over the past three years alone.