U.S. House Bill Introduced to Increase Market Access for American Farmers

On Friday, October 28th, Congress Member Jim Costa (D-Fresno) introduced the Supporting Market Access to Reinvigorate Trade (SMART) Act (H.R. 9244), which aims  to expand programs to develop new business opportunities for American agricultural goods. The SMART Act would double the amount of funding to at least $400 million per fiscal year for the Market Access Program (MAP) and at least $69 million per fiscal year for the Foreign Market Development (FMD) Program.