Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 13 — Trade Agreements Act of 1979
§ 2502. Purposes
Statutory text
The purposes of this Act are—
to approve and implement the trade agreements negotiated under the Trade Act of 1974 [19 U.S.C. 2101 et seq.];
to foster the growth and maintenance of an open world trading system;
to expand opportunities for the commerce of the United States in international trade; and
to improve the rules of international trade and to provide for the enforcement of such rules, and for other purposes.
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 Agreements Act of 1979
Pub. L. 96–39 § 1(c) · 93 Stat. 144
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2502
(Pub. L. 96–39, § 1(c), July 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 146.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–39, § 1(c), July 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 146.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(c) Purposes.— The purposes of this Act are— (1) to approve and implement the trade agreements negotiated 19 USC 2101. under the Trade Act of 1974; (2) to foster the growth and maintenance of an open world trading system; (3) to expand opportunities for the commerce of the United States in international trade; and (4) to improve the rules of international trade and to provide for the enforcement of such rules, and for other purposes.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in provision preceding par. (1), is Pub. L. 96–39, , 93 Stat. 144, known as the Trade Agreements Act of 1979. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 2501 of this title and Tables.
The Trade Act of 1974, referred to in par. (1), is Pub. L. 93–618, , 88 Stat. 1978, which is classified principally to chapter 12 (§ 2101 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 2101 of this title and Tables.