2027 Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
- Posted
- June 10, 2026
- Closes
- August 14, 2026
- Program funding
- $69,000,000
- Expected awards
- 20
- Cost sharing
- Yes
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 10.600
- Category
- Agriculture
- Archives
- September 13, 2026
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 10.600 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.
- FY2024 obligated
- $9M
- FY2025 obligated
- $758,259
- FY2026 (to date) obligated
- $8.3M
- Awards in window
- 278
Top recipients: Redacted Due To Pii
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed August 2026
Synopsis
Under the Cooperator Program, USDA/FAS enters into agreements with nonprofit agricultural trade organizations (“Cooperators”) to share the costs of maintaining and developing foreign markets for United States agricultural commodities and products. Financial assistance under the Cooperator Program is made available on a competitive basis, and USDA/FAS endeavors to enter into agreements with eligible Cooperators to cover as broad an array of agricultural commodities as possible. All U.S. agricultural commodities, except tobacco, are eligible for consideration.
Who can apply
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
An applicant must be a nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organization that promotes the exports of one or more U.S. agricultural commodities and does not have a business interest in or receive remuneration from specific sales of agricultural commodities.All applicants must have an active registration in the U.S. Government System for Award Management (www.sam.gov) before the application submission deadline of the announcement. Applicants with inactive, expired, pending, or excluded listings will be deemed ineligible. Exceptions, waivers, or extensions will not be considered. More information about SAM.gov registration can be found in Section 9, Other Information.
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