I 
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 Coop-
erator Program. 
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 
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 Representa-
tives 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— 
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(1) between 1977 and 2019, the export pro-
motion programs of the Department of Agri-
culture— 
(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 pro-
motion programs of the Department of Agri-
culture— 
(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 pro-
ducing agricultural commodities as varied as apples, 
cotton, beef, soybeans, rice, wheat, dairy, corn, cit-
rus, wine, pork, peanuts, cranberries, lentils, tree 
nuts, timber, poultry, potatoes, and seafood have uti-
lized the export promotion programs of the Depart-
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ment 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 ag-
ricultural export promotion programs at a far faster 
rate than the United States, placing United States 
producers at a competitive disadvantage in inter-
national markets; 
(6) the economic impact of the export pro-
motion programs of the Department of Agriculture 
has eroded in recent years, as funding for the Mar-
ket 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 dou-
bling public funding for the Market Access Program 
and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator 
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Program, coupled with increasing private contribu-
tions ranging from 10 to 20 percent, would result in 
average annual gains in agricultural exports of ap-
proximately $7,400,000,000. 
SEC. 3. AGRICULTURAL TRADE PROMOTION AND FACILITA-
TION. 
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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