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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 66 — Promotion of Export Trade

§ 4003. Office of Export Trade in Department of Commerce

Statutory text

The Secretary of Commerce shall establish within the Department of Commerce an office to promote and encourage to the greatest extent feasible the formation of export trade associations and export trading companies. Such office shall provide information and advice to interested persons and shall provide a referral service to facilitate contact between producers of exportable goods and services and firms offering export trade services. The office shall establish a program to encourage and assist the operation of other export intermediaries, including existing and newly formed export management companies.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 97–290 title I § 104 · 96 Stat. 1233

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 4003

    Pub. L. 97–290, title I, § 104, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1235

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 97–290, title I, § 104, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1235

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 104. office of export trade in department of commerce The Secretary of Commerce shall establish within the 15 USC 4003. Department of Commerce an office to promote and encourage to the greatest extent feasible the formation of export trade associations and export trading companies. Such office shall provide information and advice to interested persons and shall provide a referral service to facilitate contact between producers of exportable goods and services and firms offering export trade services.

  2. Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988

    Pub. L. 100–418 title II § 2310 · 102 Stat. 1107

    Inserted · 15 U.S.C. § 4003

    Pub. L. 100–418 inserted requirement that the office establish a program to encourage and assist operation of other export intermediaries, including existing and newly formed export management companies

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 100–418 inserted requirement that the office establish a program to encourage and assist operation of other export intermediaries, including existing and newly formed export management companies.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 2310. OFFICE OF EXPORT TRADE. Section 104 of the Export Trading Company Act of 1982 (15 U.S.C. 4003) is amended by adding at the end the following: “The office shall establish a program to encourage and assist the operation of other export intermediaries, including existing and newly formed export management companies.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–418 inserted requirement that the office establish a program to encourage and assist operation of other export intermediaries, including existing and newly formed export management companies.

Credits

1982–1988 · 2 acts
  1. 1982Pub. L. 97–290, title I, § 104, , 96 Stat. 1235
  2. 1988Pub. L. 100–418, title II, § 2310, , 102 Stat. 1346.
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(Pub. L. 97–290, title I, § 104, , 96 Stat. 1235; Pub. L. 100–418, title II, § 2310, , 102 Stat. 1346.)

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