Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee

The TPCC provides a means for all Federal agencies to coordinate their
trade promotion activities, eliminate duplication, and to provide a more
focused U.S. Government approach to trade promotion. Committee members
include 19 Federal agencies: the Departments of Commerce (as chair),
Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, and
Treasury, the Agency for International Development, the Council of Economic
Advisers, the Environmental Protection Agency, Eximbank, the Office of
Management and Budget, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the
Small Business Administration, the Trade and Development Agency, the U.S.
Information Agency, and the U.S. Trade Representative. The TPCC formed
working groups to aid in coordinating trade promotion programs. Thirteen
working groups were operating at the end of 1992: (1) Trade Finance, (2)
Food Production, Machinery and Processing, (3) Energy, Environment and
Infrastructure, (4) Technology and Aerospace, (5) Services, (6) Enterprise
for the Americas, (7) Eastern Europe, (8) Asia and Pacific, (9) State and
Local, (10) Minority Business, (11) U.S. Asia Environmental Partnership,
(12) Russia, Ukraine, and the Newly Independent States, and (13) Small
Business. The TPCC was originally established by Executive Order of the
President in May 1990. The Export Enhancement Act of (October) 1992
codified the TPCC.