19 U.S.C. § 2118
Access to supplies
United States · Title 19 — CUSTOMS DUTIES · Status: effective
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- 19 U.S.C. § 2118, Access to supplies, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/450736
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A principal United States negotiating objective under section 2112 of this title shall be to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries and instrumentalities to assure the United States of fair and equitable access at reasonable prices to supplies of articles of commerce which are important to the economic requirements of the United States and for which the United States does not have, or cannot easily develop, the necessary domestic productive capacity to supply its own requirements.
Any agreement entered into under section 2112 of this title may include provisions which—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Trade Act of 1974House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally