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Export Promotion: Issues for Assessing the Governmentwide Strategy

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 26, 1998
Report No. T-NSIAD-98-105
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Summary:

In passing legislation in 1992 calling for a coordinated national strategy to promote and finance U.S. exports, Congress was aware of the vital and ever-increasing role that exports play in creating the new jobs that drive economic growth in the United States. The legislation established the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, comprised of more than a dozen federal agencies, to bring coherence and direction to the government's efforts to help U.S. firms export more goods and services. Export promotion efforts include diverse programs, such as providing U.S. businesses with market research and trade leads, business counseling, and high-level government advocacy through trade missions. This testimony discusses (1) the evolution of the government strategy designed to reshape federal export promotion activities and (2) the results and issues related to past GAO work on U.S. efforts to improve its export promotion programs.

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