Export Promotion: Rationales for and Against Government Programs and Expenditures

Weekly Updates

LegiStorm is constantly adding new information on the people, places and reports in our database. In the past week, LegiStorm added:

1315 new people
107 new organizations
1149 new photos
1999 job history records for people in our database
713 education records for people in our database
3184 contact addresses, emails and URLs (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.)
1 new person through the revolving door
132 new policy reports
15 new trips to our privately funded travel database
356 new personal financial disclosures
9208 new press releases
5 new town halls
37 new hearings

Caught Our Eye Rss

Longtime House staffer heads to trade org

by Heavyn Lester on 11/13/2024
Members of Congress more likely to be veterans

by Heavyn Lester on 11/12/2024
Native American underrepresentation in Congress will continue in 2025

by Heavyn Lester on 11/04/2024
Civil rights leads the fastest growing issues in 2024

by Caleb Mynatt on 10/28/2024
Oil trade group picks up Senate staffer

by Heavyn Lester on 10/23/2024

» More from Caught Our Eye

Follow @LegiStorm

LegiStorm adds House Q2 salaries and expenses

2024-09-05
Latest Senate salary and expense records published

2024-06-10
LegiStorm adds House Q1 salaries and expenses

2024-06-05
LegiStorm adds Q4 salary analytics and turnover data

2024-03-14

» More from our DevBlog

Healthcare: Monthly people moves

by Axios on 11/01/2024
An exodus of top staffers from Yadira Caraveo’s congressional office

by The Colorado Sun on 10/15/2024
Yadira Caraveo has among the highest staff turnover rates in Congress

by The Colorado Sun on 10/15/2024
'I'm advocating Christian nationalism': Josh Hawley's ties to Project 2025 exposed

by Raw Story on 10/15/2024

Premium Download PDF Now (18 pages)

Report Type	Reports and Testimonies
Report Date	May 23, 1995
Report No.	T-GGD-95-169
Subject	Agricultural programs Business assistance Commodity marketing Economic analysis Export regulation Exporting Foreign trade policies International economic relations International trade Sales promotion Dept. of Commerce National Trade Data Bank Tied Aid Capital Projects Fund USDA Export Enhancement Program USDA GSM-102 Program USDA GSM-103 Program USDA Market Promotion Program

Summary:

The U.S. government currently has several trade promotion programs that provide business counseling, training, market research information, export subsidies, and export finance assistance and sponsor trade missions and fairs. In today's tight budget environment, Congress is carefully reviewing all government programs and expenditures. Export promotion programs are receiving close scrutiny because they involve, at a minimum, government intervention in markets and, in the most expansive form, provide subsidies to the private sector. This testimony addresses the following issues: What are the justifications for such programs? Can money be saved and the programs made more cost effective? Are such programs, irrespective of whether they are cost effective and are grounded in an analytically defensible rationale, worthy of the expenditure of taxpayer dollars, given the extent of proposed cuts in a whole range of government programs?

« Return to search Government Accountability Office reports

Weekly Updates

Caught Our Eye Rss

Social Media

DevBlog Rss

In the News

Export Promotion: Rationales for and Against Government Programs and Expenditures