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handle is hein.gao/gaobaazmu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RISTIRICTED -Not to be releed outs de the General Accoaunt.ig Q1ice cxccpt on the basi$ 01 specific approval Py the Of ico ot Congrea lo lSI R tl0i 4, 0 q?-7 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 RELEASED B-176943 JUN 5 1979 The Honorable Neal Smith Chairman, Commtee _on Small BusiLness H ouse of Representatives 109973 Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your letter of February 6, 1979, requesting information on the number and types of firms currently reporting export sales to the Department ol Agri- culture. We have initiated inquiries with pertinent otiicials in the executive branch to determine the availability of the information you requested. As currently operated, Agriculture's export reporting system does not divide reporting exporters into the following categories: (1) American-based firms; (2) American firms with overseas affiliates; (3) foreign firms with American affili- ates; and (4) foreign firms doing business exclusively over- seas. Information of this type is not available from other export data systems in the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce or in other executive branch agencies. Approximately 370 firms now report export sales to the Department of Agriculture on a weekly basis. No distinction of the type identified above is requested by the Department. However, Export Sales Reporting requlations do not prohibit the Goveri-ment from requiring exporters to provide additional information identifying themselves as domestic and/or foreign organizations. Agriculture officials we contacted oppose modifying reporting regulations to include such additional data on the grounds that it liould be of no useful purpose, and that requiring foreign owned and foreign based exporters to report would be difficult. This has been their consistent position since the Ex ort Re ortng System's establishment in September 1973. One of the problems in modifying the export reporting system to include information on the nature ot the firm exporting is the difficulty in arriving at universally acceptable definitions. One exporter's definition of a foreign affiliate often differs greatly from another's. Despite this difficulty, a breakdown of exporters into the (482960)_ 0- A2 O

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