Programs

Provides cost-share funding to help U.S. agricultural exporters develop new markets and mitigate the adverse effects of other countries’ trade barriers.

Funds set in reserve to help the United States respond to emergency food needs worldwide.

The Borlaug Fellowship Program offers mentoring and training to researchers and policymakers from developing countries to help promote food security and economic growth.

Established in 1984, The Cochran Fellowship Program provides short-term, U.S.-based training opportunities to agricultural professionals from developing and middle-income countries.

Import licensing is one of the tools FAS uses to administer the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) system for U.S. imports of dairy products.

Places U.S. Government technical experts at American embassies abroad to provide expertise on issues relating to the environment, science, technology and health.

Funds technical assistance activities to promote exports of U.S. agricultural commodities to emerging markets worldwide.

Guarantees repayment when U.S. banks extend credit to foreign banks to finance sales of U.S. agricultural products.

Monitors U.S. agricultural export sales to ensure widespread access to up-to-date market information.

Provides credit guarantees for infrastructure improvements in countries where demand for U.S. agricultural products may be limited by lack of adequate facilities.

Provides semester-long U.S. training opportunities to university-level agricultural educators from developing countries.

Provides for the donation of U.S. commodities to help developing countries modernize and strengthen their agricultural sectors.

Provides cooperator organizations with cost-share funding for activities that build international demand for U.S. agricultural commodities.

Provides fellowships to U.S. citizens to assist developing countries in establishing school-based agricultural education and youth extension programs.

Supports field-based projects that provide development assistance and emergency food relief using locally procured commodities.

Helps finance activities to market and promote U.S. agricultural commodities and products worldwide.

Supports projects around the world to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls.

A fund to reduce economic injury to domestic manufacturers from tariffs on cotton fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel made of cotton fabric.

Helps U.S. organizations provide small samples of their agricultural products to potential customers overseas.

Supports collaboration between teams of scientific and technical experts from the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

Supports joint research, education, and extension projects between U.S. and international agricultural professionals.

The Scientific Exchanges Program supports scientific training, collaborative research and mentoring between U.S. scientists and international agricultural professionals.

U.S. imports of sugar are controlled by a system of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) with annual quota volumes established by USDA.

Funds projects that address sanitary, phytosanitary and technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops.

A fund to reduce economic injury to domestic manufacturers from tariffs on wool fabric that are higher than tariffs on certain apparel made of wool fabric.

Programs

Agricultural Trade Promotion Program

Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust

Borlaug Fellowship Program

Cochran Fellowship Program

Dairy Import Licensing Program

Embassy Science Fellows Program

Emerging Markets Program (EMP)

Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102)

Export Sales Reporting Program

Facility Guarantee Program

Faculty Exchange Program

Food for Progress

Foreign Market Development Program (FMD)

International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program

Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Program

Market Access Program (MAP)

McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program

Pima Agriculture Cotton Trust Fund

Quality Samples Program (QSP)

Scientific Cooperation Exchange Program

Scientific Cooperation Research Program

Scientific Exchanges Program

Sugar Import Program

Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC)

Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund

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