Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition
§ 75. Retaliation against country prohibiting importations
Statutory text
Whenever any country, dependency, or colony shall prohibit the importation of any article the product of the soil or industry of the United States and not injurious to health or morals, the President shall have power to prohibit, during the period such prohibition is in force, the importation into the United States of similar articles, or in case the United States does not import similar articles from that country, then other articles, the products of such country, dependency, or colony.
And the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the execution of the provisions of this section.
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. 64–463 · 39 Stat. 756
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 75
(Sept. 8, 1916, ch. 463, title VIII, § 804, 39 Stat. 799.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Sept. 8, 1916, ch. 463, title VIII, § 804, 39 Stat. 799.)
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Credits
(Sept. 8, 1916, ch. 463, title VIII, § 804, 39 Stat. 799.)