---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1493.4"
title: "7"
number: "1493.4"
heading: "Criteria for country and regional allocations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1493.4"
---

# §1493.4. Criteria for country and regional allocations.


The criteria considered by CCC in reviewing proposals for country and regional allocations will include, but not be limited to, the following:

- (a) Potential benefits that the extension of Payment Guarantees would provide for the development, expansion, or maintenance of the market for particular U.S. Agricultural Commodities in the importing country;
- (b) Financial and economic ability and/or willingness of the country of obligation to adequately service CCC guaranteed debt (“country of obligation” is the country whose Foreign Financial Institution obligation is guaranteed by CCC);
- (c) Financial status of participating Foreign Financial Institutions in the country of obligation as it would affect their ability to adequately service CCC guaranteed debt;
- (d) Political stability of the country of obligation as it would affect its ability and/or willingness to adequately service CCC guaranteed debt; and
- (e) Current status of debt either owed by the country of obligation or by the participating Foreign Financial Institutions to CCC or to lenders protected by CCC's Payment Guarantees.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 79 FR 68595, Nov. 18, 2014, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 5602, 5622, 5661, 5662, 5663, 5664, 5676; 15 U.S.C. 714b(d), 714c(f).

### Source

Source: 59 FR 52876, Oct. 19, 1994, unless otherwise noted.