Pub. L. 101-302, tit. III, sec. 321

Sec. 321. Commercial Aspects of United States Foreign Assistance.— (a) The Secretary of Commerce, after consulting with the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, other appropriate agencies of the United States Government, and United States business organizations, shall conduct a study which examines and explores the foreign assistance programs currently engaged in by the United States Government and major international financing programs of the United States Government, through the Agency for International Development and other appropriate departments and agencies of the United States Government and explores mechanisms and ways by which the international economic competitiveness of the United States may be enhanced through such programs. In undertaking this study, the Secretary shall— (1) examine the foreign assistance and major financing programs of Japan, West Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and such other international aid donors as the Secretary may designate, for the purpose of determining what mechanisms are in use to tie foreign assistance to, and advance the industrial and commercial interests of, the donor nations, in particular, the programs currently being engaged in and planned by such countries in the Eastern European countries of East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary; and (2) determine, as far as possible, for each of fiscal years 1989 and 1990, and requested for fiscal year 1991, the dollar amounts and percentages of current United States programs which support United States business investment, exports, or other business-related activities, and shall compare that assessment with a similar assessment made for each of the other international aid donors examined by this study, on a region-by-region basis, with particular attention paid to the comparable efforts in the Eastern European countries referred to in paragraph (1). (b) Not later than September 20, 1990, the Secretary of Commerce shall prepare and transmit to the Committees on Foreign Relations and Appropriations of the Senate and the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Appropriations of the House of Representatives, a report setting forth the findings of the study conducted under subsection (a).