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Export Enhancement/Dairy Export Incentive Program

These export subsidy programs for U.S. agricultural products are intended to counter the export subsidies and unfair practices of competitor nations, with the goal of eliminating all subsidized exports through multilateral trade negotiations. They also serve to incrase U.S. market share in targeted overseas markets.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Globally, the export subsidy programs have not been able to demonstrate an ability to permanently expand exports or build U.S. market share in targeted countries. However, the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) was successful in offsetting European Union export subsidies for dairy products to Mexico which permitted the U.S to develop and sustain a market for U.S. dairy product exports there.
  • The DEIP has demonstrated that it is a more cost-effective way of dealing with surplus dairy products than by purchasing and storing them under the dairy price support program.
  • Lacking evaluations of these programs to assess their effectiveness.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing a framework to determine the circumstances that would warrant future reactivation of the programs.
  • Implementing outside evaluations of program effectiveness.

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