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Title 19 — Customs Duties

Chapter 29 — United States–mexico–canada Agreement Implementation

§ 4516. Trade Representative authority

Statutory text

If a country (other than the United States) that has signed the USMCA does not enact implementing legislation, the Trade Representative is authorized to enter into negotiations with the other country that has signed the USMCA to consider how the applicable provisions of the USMCA can come into force with respect to the United States and that other country as promptly as possible.

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. United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act

    Pub. L. 116–113 title I § 106 · 134 Stat. 11

    Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4516

    (Pub. L. 116–113, title I, § 106, Jan. 29, 2020, 134 Stat. 19.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 116–113, title I, § 106, Jan. 29, 2020, 134 Stat. 19.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 106. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORITY.   If a country (other than the United States) that has signed the USMCA does not enact implementing legislation, the Trade Representative is authorized to enter into negotiations with the other country that has signed the USMCA to consider how the applicable provisions of the USMCA can come into force with respect to the United States and that other country as promptly as possible.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 116–113, title I, § 106, , 134 Stat. 19.)

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