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 116 STAT. 302 PUBLIC LAW 107-171—MAY 13, 2002 7 USC 5693 note. SEC. 3208. STUDY ON FEE FOR SERVICES. Deadline. (a) IN GENERAL.— Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on International Relations, of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry of the Senate a report on the feasibility of instituting a program under which the Secretary would charge and retain a fee to cover the costs incurred by the Department of Agriculture, acting through the Foreign Agricultural Service or any successor agency, in providing persons with commercial services provided outside the United States. (b) PURPOSE OF PROGRAM.— The purpose of a program described in subsection (a) would be to supplement and not replace any services currently offered overseas by the Foreign Agricultural Service. (c) MARKET DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY.—^A program under subsection (b) would be part of an overall market development strategy for a particular country or region. (d) PILOT PROGRAM. —^A program under subsection (a) would be established on a pilot basis to ensure that the program does not disadvantage small- and medium-sized companies, including companies that have never engaged in exporting. SEC. 3209. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. (a) FINDINGS. —Congress finds that— (1) the international community faces a continuing epidemic of ethnic, sectarian, and criminal violence; (2) poverty, hunger, political uncertainty, and social instability are the principal causes of violence and conflict around the world; (3) broad-based, equitable economic growth and agriculture development facilitates political stability, food security, democracy, and the rule of law; (4) democratic governments are more likely to advocate and observe international laws, protect civil and human rights, pursue free market economies, and avoid external conflicts; (5) the United States Agency for International Development has provided critical democracy and governance assistance to a majority of the nations that successfully made the transition to democratic governments during the past 2 decades; (6) 43 of the t6p 50 consumer nations of American agricultural products were once United States foreign aid recipients; (7) in the past 50 years, infant child death rates in the developing world have been reduced by 50 percent, and health conditions around the world have improved more during this period than in any other period; (8) the United States Agency for International Development child survival programs have significantly contributed to a 10 percent reduction in infant mortality rates worldwide in just the past 8 years; (9) in providing assistance by the United States and other donors in better seeds and teaching more efficient agricultural techniques over the past 2 decades have helped make it possible to feed an additional 1,000,000,000 people in the world; (10) despite this progress, approximately 1,200,000,000 people, one-quarter of the world's population, live on less that

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