Department of Commerce
Provides commercial law technical assistance, legislative and policy advisory services, institutional capacity building, and legal risk assessments to host country governments in support of their economic development goals.
Provides government services to protect commercial interests. Works with businesses to overcome unfair foreign government-imposed trade barriers and remedy unfair trade practices. Operates the U.S. government’s online “report a trade barrier” hotline.
Department of State
Promotes global rules and norms that create a level playing field for businesses from all countries to compete and win on their merits. Reduces barriers to business and economic growth by working with host governments and opinion leaders to build support for open investment and trade frameworks.
Department of Treasury
Offers technical assistance to finance ministries and central banks of developing and transitional countries to strengthen their capacity to manage public finances, collect revenue, execute and plan budgets, manage debt and finance infrastructure, and implement sound banking systems and strong controls to combat economic crimes, including corruption.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Offers comprehensive enabling environment programs for energy and infrastructure. Supports trade and regulatory reforms at the bilateral and regional level. Provides technical assistance to help governments improve efficiency in how they spend their money, limit waste, strengthen investment, and provide better services for citizens. Supports improving infrastructure like roads, bridges, water supply, and electrical grids, which are critical to lifting the limits on a country’s growth.
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
Educates public officials in emerging markets on how to establish procurement practices and policies that integrate life-cycle cost analysis and best value determination in a fair, transparent manner. Doing this helps them acquire high-quality, long-lasting technologies, while building smart, sustainable infrastructure with overall savings to their governments. These procurement methods also open up markets to greater international competition. Assistance under the GPI includes but is not limited to: in-country training workshops, study tours to the United States, and procurement advisory services at the ministry/state-owned enterprise level.
Department of Commerce
- Brings foreign delegations to trade shows and conferences.
- Organizes platforms to introduce U.S. company capabilities to foreign government and private sector decision makers.
- Promotes foreign project opportunities with U.S. companies via online and in-person events.
- Promotes U.S. products and services to prospective buyers and arranges individualized meetings with international industry and government decision makers in target markets.
- Assists U.S. companies in developing effective market entry and sales strategies; understanding export documentation requirements and import regulations of foreign markets; and navigating U.S. government export controls, compliance, and trade financing options.
Department of State
Identifies leads for multilateral development bank project opportunities and connects U.S. businesses with relevant U.S. government economic officers overseas via a web-based platform.
Delivers information from U.S. Ambassadors and their teams about investment or export opportunities, business climates, and specific sectors to facilitate U.S. company access to their international markets.
Department of Transportation
Provides technical assistance and guidance for foreign Ministries of Transportation, Infrastructure, Finance, and other relevant agencies to help deliver and maintain high quality transportation infrastructure. The Department of Transportation also authors a range of guidance documents available to the public that foreign agencies can use to improve their transportation planning and delivery process, such as the “P3 Toolkit” that features model documents, contracts, and other helpful guidance on how to manage Public-Private Partnerships.
Department of Treasury
Offers technical assistance to help countries implement sound public debt management practices and develop domestic debt markets, including for infrastructure finance. Provides technical assistance to assist host countries to develop and finance basic infrastructure, and to build capacity to accelerate infrastructure development and apply effective approaches to economically and financially sound infrastructure projects.
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
Provides compacts which are five-year grants for selected countries that meet MCC’s eligibility criteria including commitment to good governance and control of corruption, an opportunity to reduce poverty and generate economic growth, and the availability of funds. Threshold programs are smaller grants focused on policy and institutional reform in selected countries that come close to passing MCC’s eligibility criteria and show a firm commitment to improving their policy performance. Compact and threshold programs also provide targeted technical assistance and capacity building and support for infrastructure master planning, feasibility studies, and designs.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
Provides feasibility studies and technical assistance to accelerate project identification and preparation, and attract and support private investment in development.
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
USTDA helps companies create U.S. jobs through the export of U.S. goods and services for priority infrastructure projects in emerging economies. USTDA links U.S. businesses to export opportunities by funding project preparation and partnership building activities that develop sustainable infrastructure and foster economic growth in partner countries.
USTDA provides grant funding for feasibility studies, technical assistance and pilot projects that integrate U.S. private sector innovation into infrastructure projects at the critical early stages when design choices and technology options are determined. The Agency also connects overseas project sponsors with U.S. partners through its reverse trade missions, industry conferences and expert workshops.
Department of Commerce
- Coordinates U.S. government engagement with foreign governments to maximize U.S. participation in international competition and protect U.S. business interests, including seeking foreign government compliance with relevant trade agreements.
- Coordinates whole-of-government resources and high-level advocacy support for U.S. companies pursuing foreign government projects and procurements.
- Embeds Liaison Officers at multilateral development banks around the world who are responsible for protecting and promoting U.S. commercial interests in bank-funded projects.
Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM)
- Direct Loans with fixed-rate financing for terms of up to 12 years (18 years for renewable energy projects) available to creditworthy international buyers in both the private and public sector including support for local costs up to 30%.
- Loan Guarantees in which an unconditional guarantee is issued to a financial institution lender to support its loan to a foreign buyer of U.S. capital equipment or related services. The guarantee covers local costs up to 30% and may cover ancillary services. It is available in some foreign currencies.
- Insurance protection against the risk of foreign buyer or other foreign debtor default for political or commercial reasons. Policy coverage is up to $10M for terms of up to seven years.
- Medium-term insurance protects exporters against the risk of foreign buyer nonpayment when extending credit terms of one to five years (or, in some cases, up to 10 years) and up to $25 million.
CTEP helps U.S. exporters find competitive financing when facing competition from the People’s Republic of China and advances the comparative leadership of the U.S. in 10 Transformational Export Areas.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Offers comprehensive enabling environment programs for energy and infrastructure. Supports trade and regulatory reforms at the bilateral and regional level.
- Provides technical assistance to help governments improve efficiency in how they spend their money, limit waste, strengthen investment, and provide better services for citizens.
- Supports improving infrastructure like roads, bridges, water supply, and electrical grids, which are critical to lifting the limits on a country’s growth.
Helps foreign governments gain access to private legal and financing advisory services to negotiate contracts to financial close.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
Provides direct equity and support for investment funds.
Provides direct loans and guaranties of up to $500 million for tenors as long as 25 years, with specific programs targeting small and medium U.S. businesses.
Provides coverage of up to $500 million against losses due to currency inconvertibility, government interference, and political violence including terrorism. DFC also offers reinsurance to increase underwriting capacity.
U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)
- Training Grants: U.S. firms may face a competitive disadvantage from foreign competitors offering incentives that exceed tender requirements. U.S. companies may request that USTDA help level the playing field with a training grant to fund the cost of beneficial training for the project sponsor.
- Project Preparation Assistance: USTDA funds feasibility studies, technical assistance and the comprehensive analyses that infrastructure projects need to move from concept to financing and implementation.
- Pilot Projects: USTDA tests U.S. equipment and technology in overseas settings to promote cutting-edge U.S. solutions and identify new development opportunities for scalability and replicability throughout emerging markets.
- Reverse Trade Missions: USTDA brings foreign project sponsors to the United States to observe the innovative design, manufacture and operation of American products and services to support their infrastructure development goals.
Department of Commerce
Engages directly with foreign governments to advance and protect U.S. business interests.
Department of State
Promotes global rules and norms that create a level playing field for businesses from all countries to compete and win on their merits. Reduces barriers to business and economic growth by working with host governments and opinion leaders to build support for open investment and trade frameworks.
Department of Transportation
Provides technical assistance for foreign Ministries of Transportation, Infrastructure, Finance, and other relevant agencies to help deliver and maintain high quality transportation infrastructure.
Department of Treasury
Offers technical assistance to finance ministries and central banks of developing and transitional countries to strengthen their capacity to manage public finances, collect revenue, execute and plan budgets, manage debt and finance infrastructure, and implement sound banking systems and strong controls to combat economic crimes, including corruption.
