Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 66 — Promotion of Export Trade
§ 4017. Guidelines
Statutory text
Issuance; content
To promote greater certainty regarding the application of the antitrust laws to export trade, the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, may issue guidelines—
describing specific types of conduct with respect to which the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, has made or would make, determinations under sections 4013 and 4014 of this title, and
summarizing the factual and legal bases in support of the determinations.
Administrative rulemaking requirements not applicable
Section 553 of title 5 shall not apply to the issuance of guidelines under subsection (a).
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 III § 307 · 96 Stat. 1233
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 4017
(Pub. L. 97–290, title III, § 307, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1244.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–290, title III, § 307, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1244.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 307. guidelines (a) To promote greater certainty regarding the application of the antitrust laws to export trade, the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, may issue guidelines— (1) describing specific types of conduct with respect to which the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Attorney General, has made or would make, determinations under sections 303 and 304, and (2) summarizing the factual and legal bases in support of the determinations. (b) Section 553 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to the issuance of guidelines under subsection (a).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 312 of Pub. L. 97–290, set out as a note under section 4011 of this title.