Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 1 · Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974
§ 2113. Overall negotiating objective
Statutory text
The overall United States negotiating objective under sections 2111 and 2112 of this title shall be to obtain more open and equitable market access and the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of devices which distort trade or commerce. To the maximum extent feasible, the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of agricultural trade barriers and distortions shall be undertaken in conjunction with the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of industrial trade barriers and distortions.
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.
Trade Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–618 title I § 103 · 88 Stat. 1978
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2113
(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 103, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1984.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 103, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1984.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
19 USC 2113.SEC. 103. OVERALL NEGOTIATING OBJECTIVE. The overall United States negotiating objective under sections 101 and 102 shall be to obtain more open and equitable market access and the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of devices which distort trade or commerce. To the maximum extent feasible, the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of agricultural trade barriers and distortions shall be undertaken in conjunction with the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of industrial trade barriers and distortions.
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