Looking to spur the economy and ease joblessness by doubling US exports over the next five years, US President Barack Obama is ordering federal agencies to zero in on export promotion, expanding trade-finance opportunities for small- and medium-sized businesses, and moving to overhaul an outdated export-control system, Dow Jones reported.

Obama will sketch those and other trade moves ?C part of a broader effort the White House says will support two million new jobs ?C in a speech at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference.