The TASC program is designed to assist U. S. organizations by providing funding for projects that address sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U. S. specialty crops.
U. S. specialty crops, for the purpose of the TASC program, are defined to include
all cultivated plants, or the products thereof, produced in the United States, except wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco.