---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3734"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3734"
heading: "Export-Import Bank initiatives"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3734"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Extension of Certain Trade Benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa"
  - "Subchapter III — Economic Development Related Issues"
---

# §3734. Export-Import Bank initiatives

- (a) **Sense of the Congress—** It is the sense of the Congress that the Board of Directors of the Bank shall continue to take comprehensive measures, consistent with the credit standards otherwise required by law, to promote the expansion of the Bank’s financial commitments in [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md) under the loan, guarantee and insurance programs of the Bank.
- (b) **Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee—** The [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md) Advisory [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) (SAAC) is to be commended for aiding the Bank in advancing the economic partnership between the United States and the nations of [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md) by doubling the number of [sub-Saharan African countries](/usc/19/3706.md) in which the Bank is open for traditional financing and by increasing by tenfold the Bank’s support for sales to [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md) from fiscal year 1998 to fiscal year 1999. The Board of Directors of the Bank and its staff shall continue to review carefully the [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md) Advisory [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) recommendations on the development and implementation of new and innovative policies and programs designed to promote the Bank’s expansion in [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–200, title I, § 124, May 18, 2000, 114 Stat. 270.)