7 CFR § 1493.4 - Criteria for country and regional allocations.

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title: "7 CFR § 1493.4 - Criteria for country and regional allocations."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "1493.4"
section_name: "Criteria for country and regional allocations."
chapter_name: "COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "EXPORT PROGRAMS"
part_number: "1493"
part_name: "CCC EXPORT CREDIT GUARANTEE PROGRAMS"
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last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 5602, 5622, 5661, 5662, 5663, 5664, 5676; 15 U.S.C. 714b(d), 714c(f)."
regulatory_source: "59 FR 52876, Oct. 19, 1994, unless otherwise noted."
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# 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.