15 USC § 176 - Collection of commercial statistics

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title: "15 USC § 176 - Collection of commercial statistics"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "176"
section_name: "Collection of commercial statistics"
chapter_number: 5
chapter_name: "STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(R.S. § 335; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 241; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407.)"
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# § 176. Collection of commercial statistics

A purpose of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is the collection, arrangement, and classification of such statistical information as may be procured, showing, or tending to show, each year the condition of the manufactures, domestic trade, currency, and banks of the several States and Territories.

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 335; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 241; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 335 derived from Res. , No. 16, .

### Amendments

1877—Act , struck out “agriculture” before “manufactures”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Act , transferred certain duties of Department or Bureau of Labor to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, see note set out under .