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Title 19 — Customs Duties

Part E · Chapter 13 — Trade Agreements Act of 1979

§ 2575. General

Statutory text

Nothing in this subpart may be construed—

(1)

to prohibit a Federal agency or State agency from engaging in activity related to sanitary or phytosanitary measures to protect human, animal, or plant life or health; or

(2)

to limit the authority of a Federal agency or State agency to determine the level of protection of human, animal, or plant life or health the agency considers appropriate.

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.

  1. Trade Agreements Act of 1979

    Pub. L. 96–39 title IV § 461 · 93 Stat. 144

    Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2575

    (Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 461, as added Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 351(a), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2118.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 461, as added Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 351(a), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2118.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 461, as added Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 351(a), , 107 Stat. 2118.)

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