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A program to build export markets for farm goods is required

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, section 10602, Sec. 10602. Written by .

A program to build export markets for farm goods is required

The document says “shall”Who acts: Secretary of AgricultureHow: statuteSec. 10602 in the PDF
What the document says

“The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out a program to encourage the accessibility, development, maintenance, and expansion of commercial export markets for United States agricultural commodities.”

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Sec. 10602

The section requires the Secretary of Agriculture to run a program encouraging the accessibility, development, maintenance and expansion of commercial export markets for United States agricultural commodities.

What the document actually says

“The Secretary of Agriculture shall carry out a program to encourage the accessibility, development, maintenance, and expansion of commercial export markets for United States agricultural commodities.”

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Sec. 10602
That sentence, in plain words

The Secretary must run a program. It helps open and grow markets abroad. Those markets are for United States farm goods.

What this is about

The section does not spell out what the program does. It names four aims: reaching markets, building them, keeping them and growing them.

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    Provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Public Law 119-21, sec. 10602, 139 Stat. 108 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm

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    “A program to build export markets for farm goods is required,” Provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, section 10602, Sec. 10602. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-21/proposal/sec10602-program/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).

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