42 USC § 17333 - United States trade missions to encourage private sector trade and investment

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s17333"
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title: "42 USC § 17333 - United States trade missions to encourage private sector trade and investment"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "17333"
section_name: "United States trade missions to encourage private sector trade and investment"
chapter_number: 152
chapter_name: "ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "VIII"
subchapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAMS"
part_number: "A"
part_name: "Assistance To Promote Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies in Foreign Countries"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 110–140, title IX, § 913, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1726.)"
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# § 17333. United States trade missions to encourage private sector trade and investment

**(a)** **Assistance authorized** The Secretary of Commerce shall direct the International Trade Administration to expand or create trade missions to and from the United States to encourage private sector trade and investment in clean and efficient energy technologies—

**(1)** by organizing and facilitating trade missions to foreign countries and by matching United States private sector companies with opportunities in foreign markets so that clean and efficient energy technologies can help to combat increases in global greenhouse gas emissions; and

**(2)** by creating reverse trade missions in which the Department of Commerce facilitates the meeting of foreign private and public sector organizations with private sector companies in the United States for the purpose of showcasing clean and efficient energy technologies in use or in development that could be exported to other countries.

**(b)** **Report** The Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an annual report on the implementation of this section for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

**(c)** **Authorization of appropriations** To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 110–140, title IX, § 913, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1726.)

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