Export-Import Bank of the United States federal obligations

4,233 awards: a high-volume book on a $296 million total

Most agencies near $300 million show hundreds of awards, not thousands. EXIM shows 4,233. $296,269,420.17 divided by 4,233 is about $69,990 per award—an unusually low mean for this dollar band. That ratio is what you get when a finance agency’s USAspending footprint is many discrete instruments rather than a few giant operations contracts. The packet still does not label how many of the 4,233 are guarantees, insurance, direct loans, or ordinary procurement.

EXIM’s statutory job is to finance U.S. exports when private lenders will not. Exposure on a large aircraft financing is not automatically the same number as USAspending obligations. This page reports the USAspending awarding-agency total only. Authorizations, outstanding exposure, and default claims live in EXIM’s own reports. Mixing those figures with $296,269,420.17 would compare different ledgers.

What the $296.3 million is not

It is not EXIM’s total financing authorized. It is not the face value of every guarantee. It is not a count of export jobs. It is the obligation stock USAspending attributes to awarding agency 083 through FY2026. Administrative contracts for the Bank’s own operations can sit beside program instruments that happened to flow through the same warehouse. The packet does not split those two piles.

Obligations remain commitments. Outlays—cash EXIM actually paid on claims or on its own invoices—are unpublished here. A guarantee can show a small administrative obligation while the contingent exposure is large. Readers who need exposure should not stop at this table.

FY2026 cutoff on a rolling finance book

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year in the packet. EXIM transactions can remain on books for the life of a loan or guarantee. The $296,269,420.17 is a cumulative USAspending total through that horizon, not “EXIM spent this in FY2026 only.” New authorizations, cancellations, and closeouts in FY2026 all can move the running figure.

Because 4,233 is a large count, small average changes in award size move the total less dramatically than adding or dropping a single giant contract would at a thin-award agency. Volume is the structural fact of this CGAC in the extract.

CGAC 083

Export-Import Bank rows use awarding-agency code 083. SpendingVault’s /agencies/083/ path is keyed to that CGAC. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Commerce Department, and other trade bodies use different codes. Their award dollars are not inside the 4,233. Code 083 is an identifier, not a credit rating.

State tables for a trade-finance agency

The state breakdown for agency 083 attributes 4,233 awards using USAspending location fields. Exporters, lenders, and EXIM vendors can all appear as geographic hits. A large state share may mean many small instruments tagged there, not a single factory. Open award-level records for recipient names and NAICS codes.

Use the EXIM agency page for the live $296,269,420.17 total. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 083. Ranking EXIM next to a museum or a humanities endowment by dollars alone ignores the 4,233-award structure that makes this book different.

Authorizations, exposure, and why 4,233 rows still understate EXIM

EXIM’s own annual reports track authorizations, outstanding exposure, and claims. Those series are not the 4,233 USAspending awards. A guarantee can show a small administrative obligation in this warehouse while the contingent exposure is large. The $296,269,420.17 stock answers a narrower question: what did awarding agency 083 commit on instruments USAspending stored through FY2026.

Because the mean is about $69,990, many of the 4,233 rows are modest. A few larger vehicles can still sit in the same average. The packet has no median and no product-line split among insurance, guarantees, working-capital, and ordinary procurement. Do not read the mean as the size of a typical export credit. Read it as total dollars divided by total rows.

Exporter state, lender state, and place of performance can all differ on a single finance instrument. The state table for agency 083 reports whichever geography USAspending populated. A large share in one state can be many small instruments tagged there, not a single factory. Open award-level records for recipient names. Use the EXIM agency page for the live $296.3 million total.

Questions

How much has EXIM obligated on USAspending?

The Export-Import Bank of the United States shows $296,269,420.17 in obligations through FY2026 across 4,233 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 083 is the filter. That total is not EXIM’s full financing exposure. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 083 is the source for the current 4233-award book.

Why does EXIM have 4,233 awards?

The USAspending extract counts 4,233 instruments for CGAC 083. Dividing $296.3 million by that count yields about $69,990 per award. High volume and a low mean fit many discrete finance or administrative instruments rather than a few large operations contracts. The packet does not classify each award type.

What is agency code 083?

083 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Export-Import Bank of the United States. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/083/. Other trade and development agencies have separate CGACs. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Is $296 million EXIM’s total export financing?

No. USAspending obligations for awarding agency 083 are not the same ledger as EXIM authorizations or outstanding exposure. The packet publishes the $296,269,420.17 award total and the 4,233 count only. Outlays are unpublished here. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.