Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part 1 · Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974
§ 2117. International safeguard procedures
Statutory text
Harmonization, reduction, or elimination of barriers and distortions affecting international trade; use of temporary measures
A principal United States negotiating objective under section 2112 of this title shall be to obtain internationally agreed upon rules and procedures, in the context of the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of barriers to, and other distortions of, international trade, which permit the use of temporary measures to ease adjustment to changes occurring in competitive conditions in the domestic markets of the parties to an agreement resulting from such negotiations due to the expansion of international trade.
Permissible provisions
Any agreement entered into under section 2112 of this title may include provisions establishing procedures for—
notification of affected exporting countries,
international consultations,
international review of changes in trade flows,
making adjustments in trade flows as the result of such changes, and
international mediation.
Such agreements may also include provisions which—
exclude, under specified conditions, the parties thereto from compensation obligations and retaliation, and
permit domestic public procedures through which interested parties have the right to participate.
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 § 107 · 88 Stat. 1978
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2117
(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 107, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1985.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 107, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1985.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 107. INTERNATIONAL SAFEGUARD PROCEDURES. (a) A principal United States negotiating objective under section 102 shall be to obtain internationally agreed upon rules and procedures, in the context of the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of barriers to, and other distortions of, international trade, which permit the use of temporary measures to ease, adjustment to changes occurring in competitive conditions in the domestic markets of the parties to an agreement resulting from such negotiations due to the expansion of international trade. (b) Any agreement entered into under section 102 may include provisions establishing procedures for— (1) notification of affected exporting countries, (2) international consultations, (3) international review of changes in trade flows, (4) making adjustments in trade flows as the result of such changes, and (5) international mediation. Such agreements may also include provisions which— (A) exclude, under specified conditions, the parties thereto from compensation obligations and retaliation, and (B) permit domestic public procedures through which interested parties have the right to participate.
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