Since 2001, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has conducted an annual survey on behalf of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to identify and quantify the U.S. Government's trade capacity building activities in developing countries and transitional economies. This website offers access to the full set of that survey data, covering FY1999–FY2010.
The TCB Database is based on funding at the time of obligation rather than disbursement or expenditure. Specific TCB activities that receive funding in a particular fiscal year vary in how long they are in operation. Therefore, for many of the TCB activities in the database, the funding level does not match up with the fiscal year or years in which the activity is in operation and being funded. For example, in the case of a three-year project in a country from FY08 to FY10 where all of the funding is obligated in FY08, the TCB Database would show all of the funding in FY08, but none for FY09 and FY10. Large-scale activities arising from Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compacts are one such example. MCC Compacts typically run for five years but all funds for that period are obligated the first year.