INCREASE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICE OFFICERS IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES.

SEC. 701. INCREASE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICE OFFICERS IN CERTAIN COUNTRIES. (a) Authorization of Appropriations.—In addition to amounts otherwise available, there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1993 and 1994 for use by the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service in accordance with subsection (b). (b) Use of Funds.— Amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) shall be available only for placing and maintaining 20 additional Commercial Service Officers abroad. The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, may place such additional Commercial Service Officers— (1) in countries with which the United States has the largest trade deficit, and (2) in newly emerging market economy countries, with democratically elected governments, in Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere. 106 STAT. 3671 (c) Report to Congress.— The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and the Director General of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, shall, not later than December 31, 1994, submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate on the implementation of subsection (b). Each report shall specify— (1) in what countries the additional Commercial Service Officers were placed, and the number of such officers placed in each such country; and (2) the effectiveness of the presence of the additional Commercial Service Officers in increasing United States exports to the countries in which such officers were placed.