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[CITE: 15USC182]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 5--STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
 
Sec. 182. Statistics of manufactures

    The Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall 
collect, digest, and arrange, for the use of Congress, the statistics of 
the manufactures of the United States, their localities, sources of raw 
material, markets, exchanges with the producing regions of the country, 
transportation of products, wages, and such other conditions as are 
found to affect their prosperity.

(R.S. Sec. 342; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 407; Mar. 1, 
1919, ch. 86, 40 Stat. 1256.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 342 derived from act July 28, 1866, ch. 298, Sec. 13, 14 
Stat. 330.

                         Change of Name

    Act Mar. 1, 1919, substituted ``Director'' for ``Chief''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
Commerce, see note set out under section 172 of this title.
    Act Aug. 23, 1912, transferred certain duties of Department or 
Bureau of Labor to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.