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Shown Here: Introduced in House (05/03/2017)
[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
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[H.R. 2321 Introduced in House (IH)]
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115th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2321
To amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to extend and expand the
Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development Program.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 3, 2017
Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Thomas J. Rooney of
Florida, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Panetta, and Mrs. Bustos) 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 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 ``Cultivating Revitalization by
Expanding American Agricultural Trade and Exports Act'' or the
``CREAATE Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Between 1977 and 2014, the export promotion programs of
the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have added
$8.15 billion on average every year to the value of United
States agricultural exports, equal to a total of $309.7
billion, or 15.3 percent, in additional export revenue.
(2) Between 1977 and 2014, USDA export promotion programs
have generated a net return of $28.30 for every dollar
invested; and between 2002 and 2014, under a less than full
employment scenario, the programs have annually added an
average of 2.7 percent, or $8.4 billion, to farm cash receipts,
and contributed up to 239,800 full and part-time jobs across
the United States economy.
(3) Between 2002 and 2014, USDA export promotion programs
have added up to $39.3 billion in gross economic output and up
to $16.9 billion in gross domestic product under a less than
full employment scenario.
(4) 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 USDA export promotion
programs to increase their foreign market access.
(5) Private sector contributions have helped maintain the
public-private partnership between USDA and private
agricultural groups as the effective available funds from USDA
have declined, with private contributions representing
approximately 70 percent of the funds available for export
promotion in 2014.
(6) Foreign competitors have expanded their own
agricultural export promotion programs at a far faster rate
than the United States, placing United States producers at a
competitive disadvantage in international markets.
(7) The economic impact of USDA export promotion programs
has eroded in recent years, as funding for the Market Access
Program has remained static since 2006, and funding for the
Foreign Market Development Program has remained static since
2002, while inflation has increased.
(8) A recent academic analysis found that doubling public
funding for the Market Access Program and the Foreign Market
Development Program, coupled with increasing private
contributions ranging from 10 to 50 percent, would result in
average annual gains in agricultural exports from $3.4 to $4.5
billion, and would result in average annual gains in gross
domestic product from $4.5 to $6.0 billion under a less than
full employment scenario.
SEC. 3. MARKET ACCESS PROGRAM.
Section 211(c)(1)(A) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7
U.S.C. 5641(c)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``not more than'' and all
that follows through ``through 2018'' and inserting ``not more than
$200,000,000 for fiscal year 2018, $240,000,000 for fiscal year 2019,
$280,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, $320,000,000 for fiscal year 2021,
$360,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, and $400,000,000 for fiscal year
2023''.
SEC. 4. FOREIGN MARKET DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
Section 703(a) of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C.
5723(a)) is amended by striking ``$34,500,000 for each of fiscal years
2008 through 2018'' and inserting ``$34,500,000 for fiscal year 2018,
$41,400,000 for fiscal year 2019, $48,300,000 for fiscal year 2020,
$55,200,000 for fiscal year 2021, $62,100,000 for fiscal year 2022, and
$69,000,000 for fiscal year 2023''.
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