Title 19, Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974

Short title

Congressional statement of purpose

Basic authority for trade agreements

Barriers to and other distortions of trade

Overall negotiating objective

Sector negotiating objective

Negotiating objectives with respect to trade in services, foreign direct investment, and high technology products

Provisions relating to international trade in services

Trade in services: development, coordination, and implementation of Federal policies; staff support and other assistance; specific service sector authorities unaffected; executive functions

Foreign export requirements; consultations and negotiations for reduction and elimination; restrictions on and exclusion from entry of products or services; savings provision; compensation authority applicable

Negotiation of agreements concerning high technology industries

Bilateral trade agreements

Agreements with developing countries

International safeguard procedures

Access to supplies

Staging requirements and rounding authority

Authorization of appropriation for GATT revision

Balance-of-payments authority

Compensation authority

Two-year residual authority to negotiate duties

Termination and withdrawal authority

Reciprocal nondiscriminatory treatment

Reservation of articles for national security or other reasons

Omitted

Advice from International Trade Commission

Advice from executive departments and other sources

Public hearings

Prerequisites for offers

Information and advice from private and public sectors

Structure, functions, powers, and personnel

Bills implementing trade agreements on nontariff barriers and resolutions approving commercial agreements with Communist countries

Resolutions disapproving certain actions

Resolutions relating to extension of waiver authority under section 402 of the Trade Act of 1974

Special rules relating to Congressional procedures

Congressional advisers for trade policy and negotiations

Transmission of agreements to Congress

Reports

Change of name

Independent budget and authorization of appropriations

Estimates of barriers to market access

Identification of countries that deny adequate protection, or market access, for intellectual property rights

Action to facilitate positive adjustment to import competition

Investigations, determinations, and recommendations by Commission

Action by President after determination of import injury

Monitoring, modification, and termination of action

Trade monitoring

Petitions

Group eligibility requirements

Determinations by Secretary of Labor

Study by Secretary of Labor when International Trade Commission begins investigation

Benefit information to workers

Qualifying requirements for workers

Weekly amounts

Limitations on trade readjustment allowances

Application of State laws

Employment services

Omitted

Training

Job search allowances

Relocation allowances

Agreements with States

Administration absent State agreement

Payments to States

Liabilities of certifying and disbursing officers

Fraud and recovery of overpayments

Penalties

Authorization of appropriations

Demonstration project for alternative trade adjustment assistance for older workers

Definitions

Regulations

Subpena power

Repealed. Pub. L. 107–210, div. A, title I, §123(b)(2), Aug. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 944

Omitted

Repealed. Pub. L. 107–210, div. A, title I, § 123(a), Aug. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 944

Petitions and determinations

Approval of adjustment proposals

Technical assistance

Financial assistance

Conditions for financial assistance

Omitted

Delegation of functions to Small Business Administration; authorization of appropriations

Administration of financial assistance

Protective provisions

Penalties

Civil actions

Definitions

Regulations

Repealed. Pub. L. 97–35, title XXV, § 2526, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 893

Study by Secretary of Commerce when International Trade Commission begins investigation; action where there is affirmative finding

Assistance to industries

Repealed. Pub. L. 112–40, title II, § 221(a)(3), Oct. 21, 2011, 125 Stat. 410

Community College and Career Training Grant Program

Repealed. Pub. L. 112–40, title II, § 222(a)(1), Oct. 21, 2011, 125 Stat. 411

Authorization of appropriations

Transferred

Repealed. Pub. L. 112–40, title II, § 222(a)(1), Oct. 21, 2011, 125 Stat. 411

GAO study and report

Adjustment Assistance Coordinating Committee

Trade monitoring system

Firms relocating in foreign countries

Judicial review

Omitted

Omitted

Omitted

Definitions

Petitions; group eligibility

Determinations by Secretary of Agriculture

Study by Secretary of Agriculture when International Trade Commission begins investigation

Benefit information to agricultural commodity producers

Qualifying requirements for agricultural commodity producers

Fraud and recovery of overpayments

Authorization of appropriations

Actions by United States Trade Representative

Initiation of investigations

Consultation upon initiation of investigation

Determinations by Trade Representative

Implementation of actions

Monitoring of foreign compliance

Modification and termination of actions

Request for information

Administration

Trade enforcement priorities

Exception of products of certain countries or areas

Freedom of emigration in East-West trade

United States personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia

Extension of nondiscriminatory treatment

Commercial agreements

Market disruption

Procedure for Congressional approval or disapproval of extension of nondiscriminatory treatment and Presidential reports

Payment by Czechoslovakia of amounts owed United States citizens and nationals

Freedom to emigrate to join a very close relative in United States

Repealed. Pub. L. 104–295, § 17, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3524

Repealed. Pub. L. 105–362, title XIV, § 1401(b)(2), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3294; Pub. L. 106–36, title I, § 1001(a)(4), June 25, 1999, 113 Stat. 130

Omitted

Authority to extend preferences

Designation of beneficiary developing countries

Designation of eligible articles

Review and report to Congress

Date of termination

Agricultural exports of beneficiary developing countries

Designation of sub-Saharan African countries for certain benefits

Termination of benefits for sub-Saharan African countries

Definitions

Definitions

Exercise of functions of International Trade Commission

Consequential changes in Tariff Schedules of the United States

International drug control

Voluntary limitations on exports of steel to United States

Trade relations with North American countries

Repealed. Pub. L. 102–145, § 121, as added Pub. L. 102–266, § 102, Apr. 1, 1992, 106 Stat. 95

Short title

Tariff treatment of products of uncooperative major drug producing or drug-transit countries

Sugar quota

Progress reports

Definitions

Supplemental agricultural disaster assistance

Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund

Jurisdiction