Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part A · Chapter 13 — Trade Agreements Act of 1979
§ 2533. State and private standards-related activities
Statutory text
In general
It is the sense of the Congress that no State agency and no private person should engage in any standards-related activity that creates unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States.
Presidential action
The President shall take such reasonable measures as may be available to promote the observance by State agencies and private persons, in carrying out standards-related activities, of requirements equivalent to those imposed on Federal agencies under section 2532 of this title, and of procedures that provide for notification, participation, and publication with respect to such activities.
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 title IV § 403 · 93 Stat. 144
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2533
(Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 403, July 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 243.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 403, July 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 243.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 403. STATE AND PRIVATE STANDARDS-RELATED ACTIVITIES. (a) In General.— It is the sense of the Congress that no State 19 USC 2533. agency and no private person should engage in any standards-related activity that creates unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States. (b) Presidential Action.— The President shall take such reasonable measures as may be available to promote the observance by State agencies and private persons, in carrying out standards-related activities, of requirements equivalent to those imposed on Federal agencies under section 402, and of procedures that provide for notification, participation, and publication with respect to such activities.
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