Title 19 — Customs Duties
Part D · Chapter 22 — Uruguay Round Trade Agreements
§ 3553. Membership in WTO of boycotting countries
Statutory text
It is the sense of the Congress that the Trade Representative should vigorously oppose the admission into the World Trade Organization of any country which, through its laws, regulations, official policies, or governmental practices, fosters, imposes, complies with, furthers, or supports any boycott described in section 4607(a) of title 50 (as in effect on ), including requiring or encouraging entities within that country to refuse to do business with persons who do not comply with requests to take any action prohibited under that section.
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.
Pub. L. 103–465 title I § 133 · 108 Stat. 4809
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 3553
(Pub. L. 103–465, title I, § 133, Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4839.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 103–465, title I, § 133, Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4839.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 133. MEMBERSHIP IN WTO OF BOYCOTTING COUNTRIES. It is the sense of the Congress that the Trade Representative should vigorously oppose the admission into the World Trade Organization of any country which, through its laws, regulations, official policies, or governmental practices, fosters, imposes, com-plies with, furthers, or supports any boycott described in section 8(a) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2407(a)) (as in effect on August 20, 1994), including requiring or encouraging entities within that country to refuse to do business with persons who do not comply with requests to take any action prohibited under that section.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 4607(a) of title 50 (as in effect on ), referred to in text, means section 4607(a) of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to its repeal by Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title XVII, § 1766(a), , 132 Stat. 2232.