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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is the front man of the state's ongoing trade mission in the Pacific — but he's not the only elected leader touting Utah business.

Businesses participating in the trade mission say government leaders help lend legitimacy to their foreign efforts.

Lawmakers hope to make Utah a key player in global industry.

SYDNEY, Australia — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is the undisputed public face of the ongoing World Trade Center Utah trade mission to New Zealand and Australia — meeting with ranking foreign leaders, speaking at an international mining conference and joining a Friday ribbon cutting for a major Sydney-based clean-tech company.

The 80-delegate trade mission is aptly dubbed: “The Governor’s Trade Mission.”

But Cox is just one of many elected and state of

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