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.
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. 1235Enacted 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.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
- 1982Pub. L. 97–290, title I, § 104, , 96 Stat. 1235
- 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.)