Export Promotion Programs of the Foreign Commercial Service and the Export-Import Bank: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, September 27, 1983, Volume 4 |
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abroad activities agencies Ambassador AMCONSUL AMEMBASSY American business Assistant Secretary BARNARD businessmen CERP Chairman chief of mission CLINGER Commerce Department commercial banks COMMERCIAL COUNSELOR COMMERCIAL SECTION competitive countries CRITICAL ELEMENT Department of Commerce Director district offices Doug Barnard efforts evaluation Eximbank export financing export market export promotion Export-Import Bank FCS OFFICER Foreign Commercial Service functions Gorkom GUADALAJARA important industry International Trade Administration investment loan major Marsh McElheny ment MEXICO MEXICO CITY OECD operations overseas Participation PCAP percent personnel planning positions posts potential private sector problems request responsible seminars Senior Commercial Officers small business staff STAFFING subcommittee trade fairs trade missions trade policy trade promotion U.S. and Foreign U.S. business U.S. Commercial Service U.S. companies U.S. exports U.S. firms U.S. Government U.S. trade UNCLAS UNCLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT United US/FCS USDOC USFCS Van Gorkom visited Washington WERLING
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Page 316 - was created in 1934, and established as an independent US Government Agency in 1945. The purpose of the Bank is "to aid in financing and to facilitate exports..." The Bank offers a wide range of loan, guarantee and insurance programs to supplement and encourage the private sector financing of US companies' foreign sales. The following programs are especially helpful to small companies, and to
Page 309 - and it will lead a new Department program in support of our service industries' operations abroad. It will represent the Department in international finance and development assistance affairs, especially those affecting export expansion. This includes providing analyses and staff support for Departmental representation on the National Advisory Council
Page 311 - to the industry in the form of new technology, research and development, and management training. This will be done as part of negotiating teams made up of State, Labor, and headed by the Chief Textile Negotiator from the Office of the United States Trade
Page 308 - including the operation of the Trade Complaint Center, the central contact point to which business will bring complaints and problems regarding MTN and other trade agreements, and where the private sector will receive advice as to the recourse and remedies available to the. Operation of the private sector advisory process (ISACs) under the expanded scope of Trade Policy Committee (TPC) coverage—including investment,
Page 310 - the principal source within the Department for developing positions on international positive adjustment policies and on international sectoral issues. On the basis of its own research and analysis as well as that of the new Bureau of Industrial Economics (BIE). and other
Page 311 - US classification procedures. In addition, this unit will provide current economic data and analyses of conditions in the domestic textile and apparel markets, including the impact of imports on these markets. It will be responsible for the textile and apparel export expansion program and, in conjunction with the Office of the United States Trade Representative and other organizations, reduction of nontariff barriers. Finally, it will provide
Page 300 - The Secretary will serve as an ex-officio member of the Board of the Export-Import Bank. As chief operational officer of Commerce, the Secretary will assure that other elements of the Department whose activities relate to international trade shall
Page 308 - appropriate, leading negotiations and/or renegotiations o'f bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, such as the expansion of MTN code agreements, commodity agreements, orderly marketing agreements, international sector agreements, etc. Other activities will include the examination of
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Page 314 - an emergency preparedness function designed to identify industrial products and facilities which are essential to mobilization readiness, national defense, or post-attack survival and recovery.