Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§5234 Cooperator Organizations

Title 7 › Chapter 83— AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS AND TRADE › Subchapter II— AGRICULTURAL TRADE INITIATIVES › Part B— Foreign Agricultural Service › § 5234

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress supports the foreign market development cooperator program and wants it and its private partners to grow. The Secretary of Agriculture may give agricultural commodities owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation to cooperator organizations for projects that expand U.S. markets. Those commodities must be extra, not a replacement for appropriated market-development funds. The Secretary must prevent conflicts of interest and is asked to set up a consistent, objective way to evaluate cooperator programs.

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Title 7, §5234

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(a)It is the sense of Congress that the foreign market development cooperator program of the Service, and the activities of individual foreign market cooperator organizations, have been among the most successful and cost-effective means to expand United States agricultural exports. Congress affirms its support for the program and the activities of the cooperator organizations. The Administrator and the private sector should work together to ensure that the program, and the activities of cooperator organizations, are expanded in the future.

(b)The Secretary of Agriculture may make available to cooperator organizations agricultural commodities owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation, for use by such cooperators in projects designed to expand markets for United States agricultural commodities and products.

(c)Commodities made available to cooperator organizations under this section shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, funds appropriated for market development activities of such cooperator organizations.

(d)The Secretary shall take appropriate action to prevent conflicts of interest among cooperator organizations participating in the cooperator program.

(e)It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should establish a consistent, objective means for the evaluation of cooperator programs.

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7 U.S.C. § 5234

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60