S 816119th CongressIn Committee

Increasing American Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 2025

Introduced: Mar 3, 2025

Standard Summary

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The Increasing American Jobs Through Greater United States Exports to Africa and Latin America Act of 2025 aims to dramatically boost U.S. jobs by expanding exports to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The bill requires the President to craft a comprehensive strategy to increase real-dollar exports to these regions by 200 percent within 10 years, and to coordinate public- and private-sector investment, trade, and development efforts to achieve that goal. It establishes new coordination roles in the Department of Commerce to oversee and implement the strategy, and mandates interagency and private-sector consultation, joint trade missions, and standardized training on export financing programs for U.S. government personnel abroad. The act also creates reporting milestones, including a strategy submission within 200 days and a progress report within 3 years. The overall intent is to align U.S. export promotion, financing, and development programs with a targeted growth objective in designated regions, while increasing private-sector engagement and improving supply chain security and stability. If implemented, the bill would shape interagency coordination, export-promotion activities, and overseas training for personnel involved in advancing U.S. exports.

Key Points

1Establishes a comprehensive strategy to increase United States exports to Africa, and to Latin America and the Caribbean, by 200 percent in real dollar value within 10 years.
2Requires broad consultations in developing the strategy, including Congress, the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, multilateral development banks, export-promotion agencies, and private sector groups (including diaspora networks).
3Creates Special Africa Export Strategy Coordinator and Special Latin America and Caribbean Export Strategy Coordinator within the Department of Commerce to oversee strategy development and implementation, coordinating with other federal agencies and export-financing entities.
4Requires joint trade missions to Africa and to Latin America/Caribbean to be conducted within one year after enactment.
5Mandates a training plan to standardize and ensure completion of training for U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service officers, State Department economic officers, and USAID economic officers on export-financing programs (e.g., Export-Import Bank, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, Small Business Administration, Trade Development Agency), with training completed within one year where assignments exist.

Impact Areas

Primary group/area affected: U.S. exporters and American workers, across sectors that produce goods and services for export (manufacturing, agriculture, services, etc.), who stand to gain from increased demand in Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean.Secondary group/area affected: Economies of Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean (importing countries), including potential impacts on employment, supply chains, and economic growth; U.S. government agencies involved in export promotion, financing, and development (e.g., Department of Commerce, Ex-Im Bank, USIDFC, MCC, USAID, U.S. State Department, U.S. Trade and Development Agency).Additional impacts: Heightened interagency coordination and potential budgetary implications; greater private-sector and diaspora engagement in export promotion; emphasis on stable and secure supply chains as part of trade strategy; increased reporting and accountability requirements to Congress.

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