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International Trade Administration: Market Access and Compliance

This program aims to ensure the full and fair implementation of international trade agreements and to advance open markets worldwide. It assists U.S. firms in overcoming trade agreement compliance problems and other foreign trade barriers.

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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.
  • MAC exceeded targets for cases initiated and cases successfully concluded. In 2006, MAC successfully concluded 47% of cases, which was 27 percent higher than the target for the year. MAC also beat the number of cases initiated target by 19 percent.
  • MAC and other trade compliance agencies lack an interagency strategy for assessing resource needs. The Government Accountability Office recommended that MAC and other trade compliance agencies develop a strategy to plan for resource needs to monitor and enforce trade agreements. Developing a strategy could improve efficiency and coordination, while streamlining trade compliance efforts.
  • MAC beat targets for average cost-per-case concluded. In 2006, MAC's average cost-per-case concluded was $6000 lower than the target. Also, the average cost-per-case in 2006 was much lower than the average cost-per-case concluded in 2005.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Developing a plan for resource needs with other trade compliance agencies to streamline the Government's market access and trade compliance efforts.
  • Completing an evaluation that assesses the impact MAC has on identifying and removing trade barriers.

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