United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-09-21 monographic deposited born digital 16 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-1023 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023 P0b002ee18039cdcd f:d011023 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023 GAO-01-1023 Education or training Export regulation Small business assistance USEAC U.S. Export Assistance Centers Network Department of Commerce Global Diversity Initiative USEAC Export Trade Assistance Partnership Program Department of Commerce Market Entry Program Other Written Product A01971 The Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee was created by the Export Enhancement Act of 1992 to coordinate the delivery of federal export promotion services and to eliminate the areas of overlap and duplication among federal export promotion programs. The Export Enhancement Act of 1999 reiterated that eliminating duplication was a primary Committee objective. In 1993 the Committee recommended that three agencies co-locate their staffs at a domestic network of 19 "one-stop shops," called U.S. Export Assistance Centers. These centers were to provide coordinated export training, as well as trade leads, export finance, and counseling to U.S. firms interested in becoming exporters. The Department of Commerce did not coordinate closely with the Small Business Administration in introducing its export training program. As a result, Commerce and the SBA provide separate and duplicative training programs for potential small business exporters. Neither Commerce nor the SBA systematically collect outcome data for their export training programs. Instead, both agencies track the number of clients trained and Commerce identifies export successes for its clients overall, but not for training participants. Neither agency staff members systematically follow up with training participants to learn whether they have exported, the difficulties they encountered, and how training programs might need to be adjusted to be more helpful. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023.pdf GAO-01-1023 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-1023 Other Written Product GAO-01-1023; Export Promotion: Government Agencies Should Combine Small Business Export Training Programs; Education or training Export regulation Small business assistance USEAC U.S. Export Assistance Centers Network Department of Commerce Global Diversity Initiative USEAC Export Trade Assistance Partnership Program Department of Commerce Market Entry Program