Unified Export Strategy
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The Unified Export Strategy (UES) is a single, consolidated application process that U.S. agricultural trade promotion groups use to apply for funding for a variety of USDA export promotion programs, including the Market Access Program
and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
. USDA introduced UES in 1998 in large part to ensure that applicants for the programs have a long-term overall strategy and to make it easier for them to integrate various sources of federal funding into that strategy.
Market Access Program
The Market Access Program is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Service and uses funds from the Commodity Credit Corporation . It helps producers, exporters, private companies, and other trade organizations finance promotional activities for agricultural products of the United States...
and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
The Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program is one of the agricultural export promotion programs operated by the Foreign Agricultural Service. This program consists of joint government/agri-industry efforts to develop markets by acquainting potential foreign customers with U.S. farm products...
. USDA introduced UES in 1998 in large part to ensure that applicants for the programs have a long-term overall strategy and to make it easier for them to integrate various sources of federal funding into that strategy.