19 U.S.C. § 2171
Structure, functions, powers, and personnel
United States · Title 19 — CUSTOMS DUTIES · Status: effective
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There is established within the Executive Office of the President the Office of the United States Trade Representative (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Office”).
The United States Trade Representative shall—
It is the sense of Congress that the United States Trade Representative should—
The United States Trade Representative may—
In carrying out subsection (c) with respect to unfair trade practices, the United States Trade Representative shall—
identify, and refer to the appropriate Federal department or agency for consideration with respect to action, each act, policy, or practice referred to in the report required under section 2241(b) of this title, or otherwise known to the United States Trade Representative on the basis of other available information, that may be an unfair trade practice that either—
For purposes of carrying out paragraph (1), the United States Trade Representative shall be assisted by an interagency unfair trade practices advisory committee composed of the Trade Representative, who shall chair the committee, and senior representatives of the following agencies, appointed by the respective heads of those agencies:
For purposes of this subsection, the term “unfair trade practice” means any act, policy, or practice that—
The United States Trade Representative may, for the purpose of carrying out his functions under this section—
The United States Trade Representative shall, to the extent he deems it necessary for the proper administration and execution of the trade agreements programs of the United States, draw upon the resources of, and consult with, Federal agencies in connection with the performance of his functions.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Office for the purposes of carrying out its functions the following:
Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under subparagraph (A) for any fiscal year—
There is established in the Office of the United States Trade Representative an Interagency Center on Trade Implementation, Monitoring, and Enforcement (in this section referred to as the “Center”).
The Center shall support the activities of the United States Trade Representative in—
The head of the Center shall be a Director, who shall be appointed by the United States Trade Representative.
A Federal agency may, in consultation with and with the approval of the United States Trade Representative, detail or assign one or more employees to the Center without any reimbursement from the Center to support the functions of the Center.
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
- A bill to authorize appropriations for the United States International Trade Commission, the United States Customs Service, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative for fiscal year 1983, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Tariff and Trade Act of 1984House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Tax Reform Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1990 for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the United States International Trade Commission, and the United States Customs Service.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Customs and Trade Act of 1990House: no recorded tallySenate: 92–0
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act
- Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995House: no recorded tallySenate: 98–0
- Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1996House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1999House: 414–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Trade and Development Act of 2000
- Trade Act of 2002
- Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004House: 415–11Senate: no recorded tally
- Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement ActHouse: 218–208Senate: no recorded tally
- Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015