1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Export Promotion Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) between 1977 and 2019, the export promotion programs of the Department of Agriculture— (A) have added an average of $9,600,000,000 annually to the value of United States agricultural exports, equal to a total of nearly $648,000,000,000, or 13.7 percent, in additional export revenue; and (B) have generated a net return of $24.50 for every dollar invested; (2) between 2002 and 2019, the export promotion programs of the Department of Agriculture— (A) have contributed to the creation of up to 225,800 full- and part-time jobs across the United States economy; and (B) have added up to $45,000,000,000 in gross economic output and $22,300,000,000 in gross domestic product; (3) communities across the United States producing agricultural commodities as varied as apples, cotton, beef, soybeans, rice, wheat, dairy, corn, citrus, wine, pork, peanuts, cranberries, lentils, tree nuts, timber, poultry, potatoes, and seafood have utilized the export promotion programs of the Department of Agriculture to increase access to foreign markets; (4) private sector contributions have helped 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 to 77 percent of the funds available for export promotion from 2013 to 2019; (5) foreign competitors have expanded their agricultural export promotion programs at a far faster rate than the United States, placing United States producers at a competitive disadvantage in international markets