Doing Business With FAS
FAS provides the following online information, registration, and application
services to help online users do business with us:
Alphabetical Listing of Online Services
- AgExporter
Online
Magazine: See
FAS Worldwide Online Magazine.
- Attaché
Reports:
Search and view nonclassified reports from agricultural attachés. Search
by country, date, commodity, or combinations of variables. Sign up for email
alerts when new reports become available.
- Bulk,
Intermediate, and Consumer Oriented (BICO) Foods and Beverages Reports:
Search by commodity and country for bulk,
intermediate, and consumer-oriented agricultural product data by calendar or
fiscal year.
- Buyer
Alerts: Search advertisements
published in the Buyer Alert newsletter during the past two months.
- Export
Readiness Test:
Answer
a short series of questions to find out how ready you are to export. Your score
prompts suggestions for improving readiness and competitiveness.
-
FAS Field
Offices: Locate contact information for FAS field offices by country, staff,
or geographic area.
- FAS
News Releases: Search for news
releases from FAS covering a variety of events associated with agricultural
trade.
- FAS
Subject Database:
Find telephone, telefax, and
email contact information for FAS staff by subject area. For example, a search on
"almonds" gives
information on FAS’s almond marketing programs as well as almond production
and trade reports. Users can also
search by program description.
-
FAS Worldwide
Online
Magazine: Search for articles from issues of FAS
Worldwide
magazine by countries, commodities, trade agreements, keywords, and/or
programs. Search results can be limited to specific issues of FAS
Worldwide.
- FAIRS
Report: Search
by country to find technical requirements (i.e. food laws, labeling, import
procedures, etc.) before exporting food and agricultural products.
- Foreign
Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS): Search for U.S. agricultural exports and imports, by commodity, with all countries
and regions of the world. Data is available in MS Excel format, and is broken
down by state, calendar year, and other measures.
- Foreign
Buyers List: This
service offers information on more than 20,000 foreign buyers of food,
natural fiber, and wood products in 80 countries. The Lists provide
important information on each firm such as contact information, and type of
product(s) imported. For U.S. companies only.
- Hot
Country Pages: Search the
latest attaché
reports that have been released about specific countries. Countries are
listed only if a report has been issued about them in the past two weeks.
- PSD Online:
Search current
and historical official USDA data on production, supply, and distribution of
agricultural commodities for the United States and key producing and consuming
countries. Select from a menu of pre-defined tables categorized by commodity or
commodity group, or create custom queries for specific commodities, attributes,
and/or countries.
- Qualification
Application for CCC Export Guarantee and Subsidy Programs: Apply
for export credit guarantee programs for commercial financing of U.S.
agricultural exports and for the Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) and
Export Enhancement Program (EEP).
-
Trade
Leads: Register for daily e-mails with timely information on foreign buyers seeking
U.S. food, agricultural, and forest products. This service is only available for
U.S. exporters/U.S. origin products.
- Trade
Show Database: Find out about upcoming trade shows to promote products, as
well as links to how to participate in shows. USDA-sponsored shows and others
are included.
- USDA
Directory: Search for Washington-based USDA staff e-mail addresses,
telephone numbers, and mailing addresses.
-
U.S.
Sugar Programs: Electronic Data Submission for Licensees Operating
Under 7 CFR 1530 (Refined Sugar Re-Export Program, Sugar Containing
Products Re-export Program, and Polyhydric Program).
- U.S.
Suppliers: Learn how
to contact qualified U.S. suppliers of food, farm, seafood, and forest products.
(If you are a
qualified
U.S. supplier,
find out how you can join this
program).
- U.S.
Trade Internet System: Access
various databases with complete information on U.S.
exports,
imports, and re-exports of agricultural, fish, forest, and textile products with
the world. Search using a variety of criteria, including BICO, FAS, FATUS, HS-2,
HS-4, HS-6 and HS-10.
- WTO
Tariff Schedules: Search Uruguay Round Agreement tariff schedules by country
or chapter.
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