119-hr1086

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1086 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1086

 To amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend and expand the 
 Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator 
 Program.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 6, 2025

 Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Mann, Mr. Finstad, Mrs. Hinson, Mr. 
 Panetta, Ms. Schrier, Mr. Costa, and Ms. Pingree) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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 A BILL

 To amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend and expand the 
 Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator 
 Program.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Agriculture Export Promotion Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds that--

    (1) between 1977 and 2019, the export promotion programs of 
 the Department of Agriculture--
        (A) have added an average of $9,600,000,000 
 annually to the value of United States agricultural 
 exports, equal to a total of nearly $648,000,000,000, 
 or 13.7 percent, in additional export revenue; and
        (B) have generated a net return of $24.50 for every 
 dollar invested;

    (2) between 2002 and 2019, the export promotion programs of 
 the Department of Agriculture--
        (A) have contributed to the creation of up to 
 225,800 full- and part-time jobs across the United 
 States economy; and
        (B) have added up to $45,000,000,000 in gross 
 economic output and $22,300,000,000 in gross domestic 
 product;

    (3) communities across the United States producing 
 agricultural commodities as varied as apples, cotton, beef, 
 soybeans, rice, wheat, dairy, corn, citrus, wine, pork, 
 peanuts, cranberries, lentils, tree nuts, timber, poultry, 
 potatoes, and seafood have utilized the export promotion 
 programs of the Department of Agriculture to increase access to 
 foreign markets;

    (4) private sector contributions have helped maintain the 
 public-private partnership between the Department of 
 Agriculture and private agricultural groups as available funds 
 from the Department of Agriculture have declined, with private 
 contributions representing approximately 70 to 77 percent of 
 the funds available for export promotion from 2013 to 2019;

    (5) foreign competitors have expanded their agricultural 
 export promotion programs at a far faster rate than the United 
 States, placing United States producers at a competitive 
 disadvantage in international markets;

    (6) the economic impact of the export promotion programs of 
 the Department of Agriculture has eroded in recent years, as 
 funding for the Market Access Program has remained static since 
 2006 and funding for the Foreign Market Development Cooperator 
 Program has remained static since 2002, while inflation has 
 increased; and

    (7) a recent academic analysis found that doubling public 
 funding for the Market Access Program and the Foreign Market 
 Development Cooperator Program, coupled with increasing private 
 contributions ranging from 10 to 20 percent, would result in 
 average annual gains in agricultural exports of approximately 
 $7,400,000,000.

SEC. 3. AGRICULTURAL TRADE PROMOTION AND FACILITATION.

 

Section 203

    (f) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 
5623

    (f) ) is amended--

    (1) by striking ``2019 through 2023'' each place it appears 
 and inserting ``2025 through 2029'';

    (2) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking ``$255,000,000'' and 
 inserting ``$489,500,000'';

    (3) in paragraph

    (3)
        (A)
            (i) , by striking ``$200,000,000'' 
 and inserting ``$400,000,000'';

    (4) in paragraph

    (3)
        (A)
            (ii) , by striking ``$34,500,000'' 
 and inserting ``$69,000,000''; and

    (5) in paragraph

    (4) , by striking ``during the period in 
 which that memorandum is in effect'' and inserting ``during the 
 period in which the directives in such memorandum are in 
 effect''.
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