1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Cultivating Revitalization by Expanding American Agricultural Trade and Exports Act or the CREAATE Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) between 1977 and 2014, the export promotion programs of the Department of Agriculture (referred to in this section as the programs )— (A) added an average each year of $8,150,000,000 to the value of United States agricultural exports, a total of $309,700,000,000 in export revenue, or 15.3 percent of the total value of United States agricultural exports during that period; and (B) generated a net return of $28.30 for each dollar invested; (2) between 2002 and 2014, under less than full employment, the programs— (A) added an average each year of 2.7 percent, or $8,400,000,000, to farm cash receipts; (B) contributed up to 239,800 full- and part-time jobs across the United States economy; (C) added up to $39,300,000,000 in gross economic output; and (D) added up to $16,900,000,000 in gross domestic product; (3) communities across the United States producing agricultural commodities such as apples, cotton, beef, soybeans, rice, wheat, dairy, corn, citrus, wine, pork, peanuts, cranberries, lentils, tree nuts, timber, poultry, potatoes, and seafood have used the programs to increase the foreign market access of the communities; (4) private sector contributions have helped to maintain the public-private partnership between the Department of Agriculture and private agricultural groups as available funds from the Department of Agriculture have declined, with private contributions representing approximately 70 percent of the funds available for export promotion in 2014; (5) foreign competitors have expanded agricultural export promotion programs at a far faster rate than the United States, placing United States agricultural producers at a competitive disadvantage in international markets