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091621 1 (1970-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwda0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 fWRNATIONAL DIVISION AiUG 2 5 1970 Jack 0. Padrick, Director Office of Field Services Department of Commerce Dear Mr. Padrick: We have made a limited preliminary review of policies and practices followed by one of the Department of Commerce field offices (the Boston office) in disseminating foreign trade leads to the businese communitZ. These leads, in the form of foreign private trade opportunities and government tenders, are sent to the International Liaison Trade Opportunities (ILTO) staff of the Department of Commerce in Washington by overseas posts of the Department of State. In order to inform you of the results of our review in a timely manner, several matters we noted are discussed below. We are making no recommendations at this time but plan to do so, if warranted, upon completion of a much broader review of the Trade Opportunities Program which we will start soon at several overseas locations and Department of Commerce field offices. Office of Field Services instructions recommend that field offices make max mum use of trade opportunities by notifying exporters and potential exporters of specific trade leads. The Boston Field Office's practice, however, is to disseminate only special handling private trade opportunities. During calendar year 1969, the Boston Office received from ILTO about 338 of these special handling opportunities. For routine type private trade opportunities and government tenders, i. e., those published in International Commerce and Commerce Business Daily, we were advised that no dissemination is made to the business community. During 1969 ILTO received about 5,700 routine type opportunities, most of which were included in the above mentioned publications. ILTO also published an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 government tenders during the year. Thus, it can be seen that only about 5 percent of the total potentially beneficial trade relationships were exploited by the Boston Office. Al 1t 6-3

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