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Summary:

GAO was asked to determine (1) the relationship between the Department of Commerce's (Commerce) U.S. Commercial Service (CS) and states' trade offices' export promotion programs, (2) CS's methodology and practices for determining costs and establishing user fees for export promotion services, and (3) how CS's user fees affect SMEs' use of its programs.

Author/Creator:

United States Government Accountability Office

Contributors:

United States Congress > Senate > Committee on Finance

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Export promotion: Commerce needs better information to evaluate its fee-based programs and customers: report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate [United States Government Accountability Office]

Alternate Titles:

Running title: Export promotion user fees

Subjects:

United States Department of Commerce — Rules and practice

Foreign trade promotion — United States — States

United States — Commercial policy

United States Department of Commerce

Parliamentary practice

Foreign trade promotion — U.S. states

Foreign trade promotion

Commercial policy

United States

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web from GAO web site. Address as of 4/15/09: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09144.pdf; current access available via PURL.

General Notes:

Title from cover screen (viewed on Apr. 15, 2009).
"March 2009."
Includes bibliographical references.
"GAO-09-144."

Physical Description:

iii, 63 pages : digital, PDF file

Digital Characteristics:

text file; PDF

Call Numbers:

GA 1.13:GAO-09-144

SuDocs Numbers:

GA 1.13:GAO-09-144

Other Standard Numbers:

Government Printing Office Item Number: 0546-D (online)
Report Number: GAO-09-144

OCLC Numbers:

318549940