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15 U.S.C. § 176a — Confidential nature of information furnished Bureau
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Any statistical information furnished in confidence to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by individuals, corporations, and firms shall be held to be confidential, and shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. Except as provided in subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, the Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall not permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Bureau to examine such individual reports, nor shall he permit any statistics of domestic commerce to be published in such manner as to reveal the identity of the individual, corporation, or firm furnishing such data.
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Any statistical information furnished in confidence to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by individuals, corporations, and firms shall be held to be confidential, and shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. Except as provided in subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, the Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall not permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Bureau to examine such individual reports, nor shall he permit any statistics of domestic commerce to be published in such manner as to reveal the identity of the individual, corporation, or firm furnishing such data.
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**(a)** Not later than the first Monday in February of any year following the year in which the term of the President commences under [section 101 of title 3](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title3-section101&num=0&edition=prelim), the head of each agency shall make available on the public website of the agency a strategic plan and notify the President and Congress of its availability. Such plan shall contain—
(1) a comprehensive mission statement covering the major functions and operations of the agency;
(2) general goals and objectives, including outcome-oriented goals, for the major functions and operations of the agency;
(3) a description of how any goals and objectives contribute to the Federal Government priority goals required by [section 1120(a) of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1120/a&num=0&edition=prelim);
(4) a description of how the goals and objectives are to be achieved, including—
(A) a description of the operational processes, skills and technology, and the human, capital, information, and other resources required to achieve those goals and objectives; and
(B) a description of how the agency is working with other agencies to achieve its goals and objectives as well as relevant Federal Government priority goals;
(5) a description of how the goals and objectives incorporate views and suggestions obtained through congressional consultations required under subsection (d);
(6) a description of how the performance goals provided in the plan required by [section 1115(a) of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1115/a&num=0&edition=prelim), including the agency priority goals required by [section 1120(b) of title 31](htt
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The duties of the Department of Labor, or Bureau of Labor, “to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices”, are, as of August 23, 1912, transferred to and shall be discharged by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and it shall be also the duty of said Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to make such special investigation and report on particular subjects when required to do so by the President or either House of Congress.
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In this subchapter:
(1) **Agency.—** — The term “agency” means any entity that falls within the definition of the term “executive agency”, as defined in [section 102 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section102&num=0&edition=prelim), or “agency”, as defined in section 3502.
(2) **Agent.—** — The term “agent” means an individual—
(A)
(i) who is an employee of a private organization or a researcher affiliated with an institution of higher learning (including a person granted special sworn status by the Bureau of the Census under [section 23(c) of title 13](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title13-section23/c&num=0&edition=prelim)), and with whom a contract or other agreement is executed, on a temporary basis, by an executive agency to perform exclusively statistical activities under the control and supervision of an officer or employee of that agency;
(ii) who is working under the authority of a government entity with which a contract or other agreement is executed by an executive agency to perform exclusively statistical activities under the control of an officer or employee of that agency;
(iii) who is a self-employed researcher, a consultant, a contractor, or an employee of a contractor, and with whom a contract or other agreement is executed by an executive agency to perform a statistical activity under the control of an officer or employee of that agency; or
(iv) who is a contractor or an employee of a contractor, and who is engaged by the agency to design or maintain the systems for handling or storage of data received under this subchapter; and
(B) who agrees in writing to comply with all provisions of law that affect information acquired by that agency.
(3) **B
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**(a) Submission of information by Secretary to Secretary of State; transmittal to Agency; aggregation and reporting of geological or geophysical information, trade secrets, or commercial or financial information; availability of such information during international energy supply emergency; certification by President that Agency has adopted security measures; review of compliance of other nations with program; petition to President for changes in procedure**
(1) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the Secretary, after consultation with the Attorney General, may provide to the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State may transmit to the International Energy Agency established by the international energy program, the information and data related to the energy industry certified by the Secretary of State as required to be submitted under the international energy program.
(2)
(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, any such information or data which is geological or geophysical information or a trade secret or commercial or financial information to which section 552(b)(9) or (b)(4) of title 5 applies shall, prior to such transmittal, be aggregated, accumulated, or otherwise reported in such manner as to avoid, to the fullest extent feasible, identification of any person from whom the United States obtained such information or data, and in the case of geological or geophysical information, a competitive disadvantage to such person.
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(i) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, during an international energy supply emergency, any such information or data with respect to the international allocation of petroleum products may be made available to the International Energy Agency is otherwise authorized to be made
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The Joint Committee on Printing shall consist of the chairman and four members of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and the chairman and four members of the Committee on House Oversight of the House of Representatives.
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The Executive departments are:
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 175
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL
Repeal effective 180 days after Oct. 15, 1962, except
that the last sentence of par. Fifth of section 174 of this
title shall be repealed Oct. 15, 1962, see section 4 of Pub.
L. 87–826, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 13,
Census.
SAVINGS PROVISION
Section 3 of Pub. L. 87–826 provided in part that any
rights or liabilities existing under sections 173, 174, 177,
179, 181, 184 to 187, and 193 of this title, sections 92 and
95 of former Title 46, Shipping, and section 1486 of Title
48, Territories and Insular Possessions, and any pro-
ceedings instituted under or growing out of, any of
such sections or parts thereof, shall not be affected by
the repeal of such sections.
§ 175. Additional duties of Bureau
It shall be the province and duty of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, under the
direction of the Secretary of Commerce, to fos-
ter, promote, and develop the various manufac-
turing industries of the United States, and mar-
kets for the same at home and abroad, domestic
and foreign, by gathering, compiling, publishing,
and supplying all available and useful informa-
tion concerning such industries and such mar-
kets, and by such other methods and means as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of Com-
merce or provided by law.
(Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 5, 32 Stat. 827; Apr. 5, 1906,
ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1,
37 Stat. 407; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736;
Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title XI, § 1131(23), 60 Stat.
1037.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1946—Act Aug. 13, 1946, repealed last sentence relating
to duties of consular officers with respect to the Bu-
reau.
Statutory Notes and
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