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Mr. GOLDTHWAIT. Let me give you a very general answer, if I 

 may, and I will provide for you a specific listing that shows our 

 precise staff distribution. 



The staffing patterns that we currently have, I do believe reflect 

 the kind of emphasis on potential that you are underscoring. In 

 fact, we have been through a rather lengthy process within the last 

 couple of years of evaluating each of our overseas posts and rank 

 ordering them according to chiefly market development potential, 

 but also some other important criteria like the reporting. And we 

 have made some post closings and opened some new posts, en- 

 larged other posts as a result of that effort. 



We recently established an office within our agriculturzd affairs 

 unit that will continue that work on an ongoing basis so that we 

 can continue in our staffing decisions to reflect the best distribu- 

 tion. In point of fact, we are at the stage right now where if we 

 do increase or open a new post overseas, we must compensate for 

 that by closure of existing posts or downsizing. And there has been 

 quite a lot of that, particularly in Western Europe and one or two 

 other areas of mature markets in recent years. 



Mr. Allard. Mr. Mendelowitz, I assume you have had an oppor- 

 tunity to look at the language in the Budget Reconciliation Act that 

 we passed in August. Aiid there was some very specific provisions 

 in there on the market promotion program about trjdng to address 

 some of the concerns in your report which was made prior to the 

 passage of that. Are there any additional things that you think 

 need to be done as far as the market promotion program or do we 

 need to give those recommendations and those provisions that were 

 in that budget reconciliation package a chance to operate before we 

 move further? 



Mr. Mendelowitz. No, we felt those were excellent directions 

 and we believe that it would be appropriate to see how they work 

 before we make additional suggested changes. 



Mr. Allard. Mr. Chairman, I do have some more questions that 

 I will submit to the panel. I am trying to adjust my balance of time 

 between here and a couple other committees. So I will submit those 

 in writing. 



Thank you for your time. 



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