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Highlights of MDCP's Impact

Several indices of MDCP success and activity are summarized below.

Period	Measurement	Impact		Index
1997-2018	Jobs created	On average	Each year, by MDCP exports [a]:	17,356
	Award $		To create one U.S. job [b]:	$90
	Exports generated		Per year:	$565 m
			Over one multi-year project:	$103 m
			Per $1 of MDCP award:	$358
		In total by all MDCP projects:		$12.4 b
2018		In the most recent fiscal year with complete reporting:		$200 m
2013		Record high for any fiscal year:		$2.6 b
2018	Firms reporting	One or more export transactions during the year [c]:		178
2019	Trade barrier	Removal is a goal of five of 12 active projects, or:		42%
2018	ITA metrics	WINs (written impact narratives) generated by active MDCP projects [d]:		101
2019		ITA staff engaged in direct support of active MDCP project work [e]:		219
1993-2018	Projects self-sustain	Average total MDCP project cost borne by cooperator [f]:		73%
		Of 31 projects that started a "foothold" abroad, 25 endure today, or:		81%
1997-2019	Multi-year projects	Supported by ITA per fiscal year:		avg: 18
[g] 2019				15
1993	Enduring engagement:	Total value of the six awards made in MDCP's first year:		$2.2 m
2016		Last year of activity for projects funded from most recent (2016) competition [h]:		2022
1993-2016	Awards made	Total cooperative agreements (awards) [i] made:		146
		Total value of MDCP awards made:		$40 m
1993-2018	Innovation & risk	Competitive award process. Ratio of proposals selected to submitted:		1/6
		ITA oversight minimizes spending on unproductive projects. Percent of the total award funds spent for projects not completed [j]:		1%

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[a] ((A*B)/C)*D. A=Average exports per year. B=Two (2) accounts for the observation by cooperators that only about half of exports generated by MDCP project activity get reported. C=On average, $180,000 in exports directly creates or sustains one U.S. job. D=Based on Bureau of Labor Statistics employment requirements tables, 2.7665 jobs throughout the entire U.S. supply chain are generated by every job directly created or sustained by exports.

[b] $34,219,606 in MDCP awards / 381,830 jobs generated = $89.62

[c] Excludes scores of other firms whose exports were reported on a combined basis and not broken out by firm.

[d] ITA's Industry & Analysis and Global Markets units are improving coordination to capture more MDCP-reported exports as WINs.

[e] Includes 15 ITA-MDCP project team leaders, most are Industry & Analysis staff.

[f] MDCP program guidelines stipulate that no more than 1/3 of total project cost can come from the MDCP award. In practice, many cooperators pay more than the 67% minimum of the total project cost. Hence the actual average cooperator share of 73%.

[g] Fifteen projects were active at the beginning of fiscal 2019. Three of these were completed by March 31, 2019 leaving 12 active projects since that date.

[h] Projects may last up to six years.

[i] MDCP financial assistance awards are not grants but rather cooperative agreements. They entail "substantial involvement" by ITA to help the cooperator achieve project objectives.

[j] Of 146 awards totaling $40 m made since 1993, ITA terminated seven (7) awards totaling $2 m well before the project end date and returned $1.5 m to the U.S. Treasury. Percent of award funds spent for uncompleted projects = $0.5 m / $40 m = 1.25%.