2014 US Code
Title 19 - Customs Duties (Sections 1 - 4112)
Chapter 7 - Trade Expansion Program (Sections 1801 - 1991)
Subchapter III - Tariff Adjustment and Other Adjustment Assistance (Sections 1901 - 1991)
Part II - Adjustment Assistance to Firms (Sections 1911 - 1920)
Sec. 1918 - Protective provisions

Each recipient of adjustment assistance under section 1913, 1914, or 1917 ¹ of this title, shall keep records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds, if any, of such adjustment assistance, and which will facilitate an effective audit. The recipient shall also keep such other records as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe.

The Secretary of Commerce and the Comptroller General of the United States shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of the recipient pertaining to adjustment assistance under sections 1913, 1914, and 1917 ¹ of this title.

No adjustment assistance shall be extended under section 1913, 1914, or 1917 ¹ of this title to any firm unless the owners, partners, or officers certify to the Secretary of Commerce—

(1) the names of any attorneys, agents, and other persons engaged by or on behalf of the firm for the purpose of expediting applications for such adjustment assistance, and

(2) the fees paid or to be paid to any such person.

No financial assistance shall be provided to any firm under section 1914 ¹ of this title unless the owners, partners, or officers shall execute an agreement binding them and the firm for a period of 2 years after such financial assistance is provided, to refrain from employing, tendering any office or employment to, or retaining for professional services any person who, on the date such assistance or any part thereof was provided, or within one year prior thereto, shall have served as an officer, attorney, agent, or employee occupying a position or engaging in activities which the Secretary of Commerce shall have determined involve discretion with respect to the provision of such financial assistance.

(Pub. L. 87–794, title III, §318, Oct. 11, 1962, 76 Stat. 891.)

Sections 1913, 1914, and 1917 of this title, referred to in text, were repealed by Pub. L. 93–618, title VI, §602(e), Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2072.

Section 1917 of this title, referred to in subsecs. (a) to (c), was in the original "section 317", meaning section 317 of Pub. L. 87–794, which enacted section 1917 of this title and amended sections 172(b), 6501(h), and 6511(d)(2)(A) of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

¹ See References in Text note below.