Closed · USDA-FAS-10621-0750-10-24-0004 · CFDA 10.621 · Discretionary

Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Regional Alignment of Pesticide Regulatory Systems and Trade Facilitative MRLs

Federal grant opportunity posted by Foreign Agricultural Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $10M
Award range
Closed
Status
July 29, 2024
Close date
3
Expected awards

The verdict

Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Regional Alignment of Pesticide Regulatory Systems and Trade Facilitative MRLs is a closed discretionary listing from Foreign Agricultural Service that offered Up to $10,000,000 across 3 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 138 other opportunities from Foreign Agricultural Service.

up to $10M
award range
Closed
application status
3
expected awards
10.621
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Regional Al… is closed (last close July 29, 2024). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Foreign Agricultural Service still indexes 138 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed July 29, 2024

Posted May 17 Closes Jul 29

Est. Total Funding

$10,000,000

Expected Awards

3

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Trade and Regulatory Capacity Building, announces this funding opportunity to support the Assisting Specialty Crop Exports (ASCE) Initiative. This opportunity is intended to support initiatives described to promote the export of U.S. specialty crops to current and prospective foreign markets with three Tracks. Track 1: Alignment of Asian pesticide regulatory systems and trade facilitative MRLsThis track will support harmonization of MRL systems in Asia with the adoption and implementation of risk-based pesticide regulatory systems and MRL setting consistent with Codex and/or the U.S. system, countering hazard-based policies and practices.Track 2: Alignment of Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) pesticide regulatory systems and trade facilitative MRLsThis track provides bilateral and/or regional technical assistance to partner countries in LAC’s regional economic communities (e.g., the Central American Regional Economic Community, the Andean Community (CAN), the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)).Track 3: Alignment of pesticide regulatory systems and trade facilitative MRLs in AfricaThe track aims to build capacity on pesticide registration and MRL setting to support the development and implementation of risk-based pesticide regulatory systems and MRL policy consistent with Codex and/or the U.S. system and based on the WTO SPS Agreement.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · USDA-FAS-10621-0750-10-24-0004

Grants.gov marks Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Regional Al… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Agriculture (AG). This eligibility-code string dominates the Foreign Agricultural Service book (104 peers, 75% of 139).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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Agency Contact

Lindsay Malecha Email: lindsay.malecha@usda.gov Phone: 202-777-9054

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