MDCP

Get Up To $300,000 For Your Trade Development Project!

The Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) is a competitive award. The award grants up to $300,000 in matching funds to help U.S. non-profit organizations address specific trade issues that affect industries and sectors of the U.S. economy. 

MDCP is a Partnership

An MDCP award establishes a partnership between ITA and non-profit industry groups like trade associations and standards-developing organizations. You gain a partner with more than 2000 experts located around the globe in more than 75 international markets.

Our specialists have years of experience opening doors and breaking down barriers to trade to level the playing field for U.S. companies looking to export into markets. With our team by your side, your organization and your stakeholders will have a strong advocate to help successfully guide you.

Further, an MDCP partnership allows for including the ITA emblem in a suitable place on your organization’s website, on printed programs, in promotional material and in emails. Use of the ITA emblem is the easiest and often the most appropriate way to indicate your MDCP partnership with ITA. It is a graphic reminder that your project is backed by a partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration.

A Long History of Success

The Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) is the U.S. government’s most successful export assistance program, that provides sustained benefits toe stakeholders long after the project ends. MDCP recipients achieve much success including:

• Producing over $334 in exports for every $1 of ITA funding
• Generating over $12.5 billion of exports since the program began, over 25 years ago.
• Creating or sustaining over 15,000 U.S. Jobs annually.

Each award helps non-profit groups pursue innovative projects that address trade barriers, enhance industry competitiveness, and generate exports that create or sustain U.S. jobs.