Experts Tell Congress Export Promotion Lacks Firepower; Recommend Financing, Embassy Capacity, and Reforms to Foreign Commercial Service

May 14, 2025

Witnesses and members told the House subcommittee U.S. export promotion needs stronger financing, better embassy-level coordination, and human-capital reforms; proposals included reauthorizing and strengthening DFC, expanding EXIM support, and folding the Foreign Commercial Service into the State Department.

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Witnesses at a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing described gaps in the U.S. export-promotion regime and offered reforms to strengthen commercial advocacy overseas.

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