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title: "To Do: Integrate Trade Promotion and Export-Assistance Programs"
summary: |-
  The Commerce Department should integrate and align the current patchwork of U.S. trade promotion and export-assistance programs to make it easier for U.S. exporters to get the information and assistance they need.
date: "2024-06-10"
issues: ["Trade"]
content_type: "Knowledge Base Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/10/to-do-integrate-trade-promotion-and-export-assistance-programs/"
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# To Do: Integrate Trade Promotion and Export-Assistance Programs

# Recommendation

The Commerce Department should develop an integrated national export-assistance system.

# Details

Trade promotion and assistance programs in the United States are disorganized and misaligned, making it difficult for U.S. exporters to get the information and assistance they need. These patchwork programs also harm the United States by failing to reduce the country’s massive trade deficit. The federal government must promote U.S. exports to cut the deficit and enter new international markets, particularly those unaligned with China or the United States. The administration should charge the Commerce Department with establishing a national, inter-agency, and inter-governmentally aligned trade promotion system.

**Keep reading:**

- Robert D. Atkinson, et al., “A Techno-Economic Agenda for the Next Administration” (ITIF, June 2024), [https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/10/a-techno-economic-agenda-for-the-next-administration/](https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/10/a-techno-economic-agenda-for-the-next-administration/).

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/10/to-do-integrate-trade-promotion-and-export-assistance-programs/*