U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Agriculture
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) HAS AN AGGRESSIVE EXPORT program. As with the Department of Commerce (DOC), the USDA has numerous subunits, one of which is the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). FAS is a lesser part of the USDA than ITA is of the DOC. The FAS is presided over by the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commercial Programs. In addition to FAS, the secretariat includes the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS); the Office of International Cooperation and Development (OICD); and the management of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC), a wholly owned goverment financing corporation. ASCS activities include buying and storing crops. OICD specializes in development of poor countries and is in charge of the agricultural side of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). CCC, while active internationally through the GSM -102 and GSM-103 programs, PL 480 also has many major domestic financial responsibilities.

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