---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3734"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3734"
heading: "Export-Import Bank initiatives"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
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](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=5) otherwise required by law, to promote the expansion of the Bank’s financial commitments in sub-Saharan Africa under the loan, guarantee and insurance programs of the Bank.
- (b) **Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee—** The sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee (SAAC) is to be commended for aiding the Bank in advancing the economic partnership between the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) and the nations of sub-Saharan Africa by doubling the number of sub-Saharan African [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) in which the Bank is open for traditional financing and by increasing by tenfold the Bank’s support for sales to sub-Saharan Africa 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 Advisory Committee recommendations on the development and implementation of new and innovative policies and programs designed to promote the Bank’s expansion in sub-Saharan Africa.

## Source credit

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