Title 7 — Agriculture
Part B · Chapter 87 — Export Promotion
§ 5673. Contracting authority to expand agricultural export markets
Statutory text
In general
The Secretary may contract with individuals for services to be performed outside the United States as the Secretary determines necessary or appropriate for carrying out programs and activities to maintain, develop, or enhance export markets for United States agricultural commodities and products.
Not employees of United States
Individuals referred to in subsection (a) shall not be regarded as officers or employees of the United States.
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.
Agricultural Trade Act of 1978
Pub. L. 95–501 title IV § 413 · 92 Stat. 1685
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 5673
(Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 413, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3685.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 413, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3685.)
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Credits
(Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 413, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, , 104 Stat. 3685.)