2012 US Code
Title 19 - Customs Duties
Chapter 12 - TRADE ACT OF 1974 (§§ 2101 - 2497b)
Subchapter I - NEGOTIATING AND OTHER AUTHORITY (§§ 2111 - 2242)
Part 2 - Other Authority (§§ 2131 - 2138)
Section 2136 - Reciprocal nondiscriminatory treatment
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES CHAPTER 12 - TRADE ACT OF 1974 SUBCHAPTER I - NEGOTIATING AND OTHER AUTHORITY Part 2 - Other Authority Sec. 2136 - Reciprocal nondiscriminatory treatment |
| Contains | section 2136 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 93-618, title I, §126, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1992; Pub. L. 105-362, title XIV, §1401(b)(1), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3294. |
| Statutes at Large References | 88 Stat. 1992, 1978 112 Stat. 3294 |
| Public Law References | Public Law 93-618, Public Law 105-362 |
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Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in any other provision of law, any duty or other import restriction or duty-free treatment proclaimed in carrying out any trade agreement under this subchapter shall apply to products of all foreign countries, whether imported directly or indirectly.
(b) Presidential determination of whether major industrial countries have made substantially equivalent concessions to the United StatesThe President shall determine, after the conclusion of all negotiations entered into under this chapter or at the end of the 5-year period beginning on January 3, 1975, whichever is earlier, whether any major industrial country has failed to make concessions under trade agreements entered into under this chapter which provide competitive opportunities for the commerce of the United States in such country substantially equivalent to the competitive opportunities, provided by concessions made by the United States under trade agreements entered into under this chapter, for the commerce of such country in the United States.
(c) Major industrial countriesFor purposes of this section, “major industrial country” means Canada, the European Economic Community, the individual member countries of such Community, Japan, and any other foreign country designated by the President for purposes of this subsection.
(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, §126, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1992; Pub. L. 105–362, title XIV, §1401(b)(1), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3294.)
References in TextThis chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–618, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1978, as amended, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 2101 of this title and Tables.
Amendments1998—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 105–362 redesignated subsec. (d) as (c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which related to recommendations to Congress for legislation following a Presidential determination that a major industrial country failed to grant equivalent concessions.
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