U.S. Trade and Development Agency federal obligations

A $112.5 million technical-assistance book

USTDA’s public product is project-preparation assistance: studies, reverse trade missions, and related tools meant to connect U.S. firms to overseas infrastructure demand. USAspending does not score whether a study led to a contract. It records awards USTDA made. $112,533,471.12 through FY2026 is that obligation stock. Host-country ministries and U.S. contractors can both appear as recipients if they sit on federal award records tagged to CGAC 1133.

Two hundred seventy-one awards against $112.5 million implies about $415,253 per award. That mean is consistent with study-scale technical-assistance instruments rather than a high-volume finance book with thousands of small-average rows. The packet has no median and no country-by-country split, even though the mission is overseas.

Exports versus obligations

Readers sometimes want “exports generated.” That multiplier is an agency performance claim, not a USAspending field. The 271 awards total $112,533,471.12 in obligations. They do not total U.S. export sales. Mixing those objects would treat a feasibility-study award as if it were a shipment.

The Export-Import Bank is a different awarding agency with a different CGAC. USTDA is not a small export-credit bank. It is a separate technical-assistance body. SpendingVault does not merge the two books.

FY2026 cutoff and overseas place of performance

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $112,533,471.12 is cumulative through that horizon. Multi-year studies remain in a running obligation total until closed. This is not USTDA’s FY2026 appropriation by itself.

Outlays are unpublished. Study contracts can be obligated before deliverables are accepted. Staff pay generally never appears among the 271 awards. Foreign place-of-performance values, when present, live on award-level records; the state table still reports U.S. geography fields for domestic attributions.

CGAC 1133

USTDA rows use awarding-agency code 1133. Commerce, State, USAID, and EXIM use other codes. A development-finance study awarded by another body would not sit inside these 271 rows. SpendingVault’s /agencies/1133/ path stays on USTDA. Code 1133 is an identifier, not a Harmonized System tariff number.

How to read the USTDA pages

Open the United States Trade and Development Agency page for the live $112,533,471.12 and 271-award filters. The state subdirectory shows domestic USAspending geography for those awards—often vendor or headquarters locations rather than host countries. Use the all-agencies index as a directory.

Nothing in this extract scores deal closure or jobs. Those claims, if made, belong in USTDA reports with their own methods. This file is the award ledger through FY2026 for CGAC 1133.

Host countries, U.S. contractors, and the 271-award split

USTDA studies are designed around overseas infrastructure demand. USAspending still tags many of the 271 awards with U.S. recipient or place-of-performance locations because American contractors often perform the studies. The state table for agency 1133 is that domestic geography. It is not a ranking of host countries by deal size.

Export-sales multipliers that appear in agency performance reports are not a USAspending field. The $112,533,471.12 answers a narrower question: what did awarding agency 1133 commit on instruments in the warehouse through FY2026. Mixing that stock with claimed export follow-on would treat a feasibility study as if it were a shipment.

Multi-year studies remain in the running total until closed. FY2026 is the cutoff, not the year every study started. Open award-level records for country-of-performance values when they exist; empty fields are common. Use the USTDA agency page for live tables. Keep this CGAC unmerged with export-credit or development-finance awarding agencies. Outlays are unpublished in the packet.

Reverse trade missions and feasibility studies can both sit among the 271 awards. The packet does not split them. A reader who wants only studies must filter the award-level file. The $112,533,471.12 is the combined stock through FY2026 for CGAC 1133. Do not convert that total into an export-jobs claim; jobs are not a USAspending field. Use the USTDA agency page for live tables. Host-country detail, when present, lives on individual records rather than on the state roll-up.

Sector tags such as energy, transport, or health are USTDA program language. They are not columns in this packet. The 271 awards and $112,533,471.12 are unsplit through FY2026 for CGAC 1133. This prose will not invent a sector table. Open award-level records if descriptions support a filter. Use the USTDA agency page for live totals. Domestic state shares remain vendor geography, not host-country rank.

Questions

How much has USTDA obligated on USAspending?

The United States Trade and Development Agency shows $112,533,471.12 in obligations through FY2026 across 271 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 1133 is the filter. The total is not a measure of U.S. export sales generated. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 1133 is the source for the current 271-award book.

What is the average USTDA award?

Dividing $112,533,471.12 by 271 awards yields about $415,253. The packet has no median and no country split. Study-scale technical assistance can sit beside smaller administrative awards. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 1133?

1133 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for USTDA. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/1133/. EXIM Bank, USAID, and Commerce are separate awarding agencies. 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.

Why does a foreign-assistance agency have a U.S. state table?

USAspending still tags many awards with U.S. recipient or place-of-performance locations. The state table for agency 1133 shows those domestic fields for the 271 awards. Host-country detail, when it exists, is on individual award records. 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.