USG Resources Policy Support

Policy Support/Enabling Environment for Exporters

U.S. Department of Commerce

• Commercial Diplomacy Assistance - The International Trade Administration provides U.S. companies with commercial diplomacy assistance to tackle policy challenges that may arise when doing business in foreign markets and to reduce, remove, and prevent foreign trade barriers.
• ITA’s Office of Trade Agreements Negotiation and Compliance (TANC) - TANC works to ensure that foreign trading partners live up to their trade agreement obligations. U.S. companies that face foreign trade barriers that unfairly or unnecessarily restrict U.S. exports should report the trade barrier to TANC. 
  • Report a trade barrier, or
  • Contact TANC.

U.S. Small Business Administration

• Office of International Trade (OIT) - OIT is the voice of small businesses in the U.S. government interagency trade policy development process and advocates for small business-friendly policies in foreign markets.

U.S. Trade & Development Agency

• Global Procurement Initiative (GPI) - The U.S. Trade and Development Agency’s (USTDA’s) Global Procurement Initiative: Understanding Best Value educates public procurement officials in emerging markets on how to establish procurement practices that integrate life-cycle cost analysis and best value determination in a fair and transparent manner. This helps partner countries acquire high-quality and long-lasting infrastructure and opens up markets to international competition.
• Contact for more information.

U.S. Agency for International Development

• Private-Sector Engagement Policy - The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Private-Sector Engagement Policy is an agency-wide call to action to work with the private sector and provide opportunities for U.S. businesses.

U.S. Department of Transportation

• Momentum Initiative - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Momentum Initiative advocates for good regulatory practices and supports the development and enactment of best practices across a broad range of transportation disciplines and topics, including emerging technologies, transparent procurement and financing processes, project selection, and long-term management and operations of transportation infrastructure.

EPA 

• EPA International Cooperation - Collaborating with global and bilateral partners, EPA is working to promote sustainable development, protect vulnerable populations, facilitate commerce, and engage diplomatically around the world. This page highlights the geographic priorities and international initiatives that EPA is working on.  

NOAA

• National Ocean Service - NOAA’s National Ocean Service website on international collaboration provides NOAA’s programs that aim to protect natural resources, coastal communities, and economy.