"In opaque stones, China has taken over," Mr. Jain of the export council said.
President Clinton appointed Mr. Armstrong to head his prestigious export council.
But Mr. Udani of the export council said neither effort would quickly offset the decline in exports of mass-market clothes.
Mr. Velden, the chairman of the district export council, said last year the council supported six bills in the legislature aimed at export promotion, but all died.
Barack Obama toured a plant working on the Dreamliner last year and chose Boeing boss McNerney to chair the president's export council in March 2010.
U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Ursula to help lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009-2016, and she served as chair of the President's Export Council from 2015-2016 after service as vice chair 2010-2015.
A Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology who is not serving in the Federal Government and the Chair and Vice Chair of the President's Export Council shall serve as ex-officio members.
The president also named an advisory committee on international trade, called the President's Export Council, which will be led by W. James McNerney Jr., the chief executive of Boeing, and Ursula M. Burns, the chief executive of Xerox.
The Tromoso-based seafood export council has started a "Cod TV" cable channel, and a network of government agencies, farmers and researchers has come together called "Sats pa Torsk!" ("Go for Cod!").
"The banking community, they legitimately are concerned and it's a deeper concern than the last time around," when Congress nearly failed to increase the debt limit in mid-2011, said W. James McNerney Jr., chief executive of Boeing and chairman of both the Business Roundtable, a group of major corporations, and the White House export council.
