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GGD-95-195R 1 (1995-06-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackwc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-261618 June 26, 1995 The Honorable Donald A. Manzullo Chairman Subcommittee on Procurement, Exports, and Business Opportunities Committee on Small Business House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: As Congress considers how to downsize the federal government, many of the proposals being reviewed would involve terminating federal functions and agencies. Several proposals would abolish the Department of Commerce and, in the process, eliminate some of its component parts and relocate others to various parts of the government. Abolishing the Commerce Department would have significant implications for the operations of the federal government's trade programs and responsibilities, even if all of Commerce's trade operations were to be removed to other agencies. You asked us to provide some insights into how Congress could consolidate federal trade activities were the Commerce Department to be abolished. This letter responds to your request by (1) reviewing the role that Commerce plays in trade, (2) discussing two past efforts to reorganize federal trade activities and their implications for today's debate, (3) commenting on some of the proposals that have been made for reorganizing Commerce's trade functions, and (4) presenting some principles that Congress may wish to use to guide it in this debate. This letter is based on more than a decade of GAO work covering a wide variety of trade-related issues. These involved export promotion, including the programs of the Commerce Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); major trade negotiations and agreements, such as GAO/GGD-95-195R Commerce's Trade Functions

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