How come audacity cannot export mp3?

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hi
why do I have to download additional software to enable audacity to export to mp3? I mean if it can readily export to .wav without any additional tweaking, why can’t it also export to .mp3?

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See here in the FAQ: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_about_audacity.html#mp3