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22 U.S.C. § 3101 — Congressional statement of findings and declaration of purpose
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) the United States Government is presently authorized to collect limited amounts of information on United States investment abroad and foreign investment in the United States;
(2) international investment has increased rapidly within recent years;
(3) such investment significantly affects the economies of the United States and other nations;
(4) international efforts to obtain information on the activities of multinational enterprises and other international investors have accelerated recently;
(5) the potential consequences of international investment cannot be evaluated accurately because the United States Government lacks sufficient information on such investment and its actual or possible effects on the national security, commerce, employment, inflation, general welfare, and foreign policy of the United States;
(6) accurate and comprehensive information on international investment is needed by the Congress to develop an informed United States policy on such investment;
(7) United States service industries engaged in interstate and foreign commerce account for a substantial part of the labor force and gross national product of the United States economy, and such commerce is rapidly increasing;
(8) international trade and services is an important issue for international negotiations and deserves priority in the attention of governments, international agencies, negotiators, and the private sector; and
(9) existing estimates of international investment and trade in services, collected under existing legal authority, are limited in scope and are based on outdated statistical bases, reports, and information which are insufficient for policy formulation and decisionmaking.
**(b) Purpose** It is therefore t
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds and declares that—
(1) the United States Government is presently authorized to collect limited amounts of information on United States investment abroad and foreign investment in the United States;
(2) international investment has increased rapidly within recent years;
(3) such investment significantly affects the economies of the United States and other nations;
(4) international efforts to obtain information on the activities of multinational enterprises and other international investors have accelerated recently;
(5) the potential consequences of international investment cannot be evaluated accurately because the United States Government lacks sufficient information on such investment and its actual or possible effects on the national security, commerce, employment, inflation, general welfare, and foreign policy of the United States;
(6) accurate and comprehensive information on international investment is needed by the Congress to develop an informed United States policy on such investment;
(7) United States service industries engaged in interstate and foreign commerce account for a substantial part of the labor force and gross national product of the United States economy, and such commerce is rapidly increasing;
(8) international trade and services is an important issue for international negotiations and deserves priority in the attention of governments, international agencies, negotiators, and the private sector; and
(9) existing estimates of international investment and trade in services, collected under existing legal authority, are limited in scope and are based on outdated statistical bases, reports, and information which are insufficient for policy formulation and decisionmaking.
**(b) Purpose** It is therefore the purpose of this chapter to provide clear and unambiguous authority for the President to collect information on international investment and United States foreign trade in services, whether directly or by affiliates, including related information necessary for assessing the impact of such investment and trade, to authorize the collection and use of information on direct investments owned or controlled directly or indirectly by foreign governments or persons, and to provide analyses of such information to the Congress, the executive agencies, and the general public. It is the intent of the Congress that information which is collected from the public under this chapter be obtained with a minimum burden on business and other respondents and with no unnecessary duplication of effort, consistent with the national interest in obtaining comprehensive and reliable information on international investment and trade in services.
**(c) Nonrestraint and nondeterrence of investment** Nothing in this chapter is intended to restrain or deter foreign investment in the United States, United States investment abroad, or trade in services.
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The President of the United States is authorized to designate and empower the head of any department or agency in the executive branch, or any official thereof who is required to be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to perform without approval, ratification, or other action by the President (1) any function which is vested in the President by law, or (2) any function which such officer is required or authorized by law to perform only with or subject to the approval, ratification, or other action of the President: Provided, That nothing contained herein shall relieve the President of his responsibility in office for the acts of any such head or other official designated by him to perform such functions. Such designation and authorization shall be in writing, shall be published in the Federal Register, shall be subject to such terms, conditions, and limitations as the President may deem advisable, and shall be revocable at any time by the President in whole or in part.
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**(a) Exchange of Information.—** The Bureau of the Census shall exchange with the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce information collected under this title, and under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act, that pertains to any business enterprise that is operating in the United States, if the Secretary of Commerce determines such information is appropriate to augment and improve the quality of data collected under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act. Information provided to the Bureau of Economic Analysis by the Bureau of the Census shall be only those data collected directly from respondents by the Bureau of the Census.
**(b) Requests for Information.—** The Director of the Bureau requesting information under this section shall make the request in writing and shall certify that the information will be used only for statistical activities performed to improve the quality of data collected under the authority of title 13, United States Code, and the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act.
**(c) Definition.—** As used in subsection (a), the terms “business enterprise” and “United States” have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act.
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This chapter may be cited as the “Trade Act of 1974”.
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(1) The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a service industries development program designed to—
(A) develop, in consultation with other Federal agencies as appropriate, policies regarding services that are designed to increase the competitiveness of United States service industries in foreign commerce;
(B) develop a data base for assessing the adequacy of Government policies and actions pertaining to services, including, but not limited to, data on trade, both aggregate and pertaining to individual service industries;
(C) collect and analyze, in consultation with appropriate agencies, information pertaining to the international operations and competitiveness of United States service industries, including information with respect to—
(i) policies of foreign governments toward foreign and United States service industries;
(ii) Federal, State, and local regulation of both foreign and United States suppliers of services, and the effect of such regulation on trade;
(iii) the adequacy of current United States policies to strengthen the competitiveness of United States service industries in foreign commerce, including export promotion activities in the service sector;
(iv) tax treatment of services, with particular emphasis on the effect of United States taxation on the international competitiveness of United States firms and exports;
(v) treatment of services under international agreements of the United States;
(vi) antitrust policies as such policies affect the competitiveness of United States firms; and
(vii) treatment of services in international agreements of the United States;
(D) conduct a program of research and analysis of service-related issues and problems, including forecasts and industrial strategies; and
(E) c
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(A) The United States Trade Representative, through the interagency trade organization established pursuant to [section 1872(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1872/a&num=0&edition=prelim) or any subcommittee thereof, shall, in conformance with this Act and other provisions of law, develop (and coordinate the implementation of) United States policies concerning trade in services.
(B) In order to encourage effective development, coordination, and implementation of United States policies on trade in services—
(i) each department or agency of the United States responsible for the regulation of any service sector industry shall, as appropriate, advise and work with the United States Trade Representative concerning matters that have come to the department’s or agency’s attention with respect to—
(I) the treatment afforded United States service sector interest in foreign markets; or
(II) allegations of unfair practices by foreign governments or companies in a service sector; and
(ii) the Department of Commerce, together with other appropriate agencies as requested by the United States Trade Representative, shall provide staff support and other assistance for negotiations on service-related issues by the United States Trade Representatives 11 So in original. Probably should be “Representative”. and the domestic implementation of service-related agreements.
(C) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to alter any existing authority or responsibility with respect to any specific service sector.
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(A) 22 See Codification note below. The President shall, as he deems appropriate—
(i) consult with State governments on issues of trade policy, including negotiating objective
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The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The United States Government collects substantial amounts of information from foreign owned or controlled business enterprises or affiliates operating in the United States.
(2) Additional analysis and presentation of this information is desirable to assist the public debate on the issue of foreign direct investments in the United States.
(3) Information collected from foreign owned or controlled firms by the Bureau of Economic Analysis has serious analytical limitations because it is largely collected on an “enterprise” basis that does not permit an adequate analysis by industry groupings.
(4) Statistical and analytic comparisons of the performance of foreign owned or controlled businesses operating within the United States with other business enterprises operating within the same industry can be accomplished under sections 3101(b) and 3104(c) of this title, and under Executive Order Numbered 11961, without the need to collect additional information, by sharing with other authorized Government agencies the employer identification numbers maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
(5) Public disclosures of confidential business information collected by the United States Government relating to international direct investment flows could cause serious damage to the accuracy of the statistical data base.
(6) The Government Accountability Office may have limited access to Government data on foreign direct investment.
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**(a) Annual report on foreign direct investment in United States** Not later than 6 months after November 7, 1990, and not later than the end of each 1-year period occurring thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and to the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress a report on the role and significance of foreign direct investment in the United States. Such report shall address the history, scope, trends, market concentrations, and effects on the United States economy of such investment. In addition, the Secretary of Commerce shall, if requested by any such committee, appear before that committee to provide testimony with respect to any report under this subsection.
**(b) Sources of data** In preparing each report under subsection (a), the Secretary of Commerce, or the Secretary’s designees, shall consider information collected by—
(1) the Bureau of Economic Analysis under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act ([22 U.S.C. 3101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3101&num=0&edition=prelim) and following);
(2) the Bureau of the Census on industry, manufacturing, research and development, and trade, under title 13;
(3) the Bureau of Labor Statistics pertaining to information collected under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act, but only to the extent that such information is in a form that cannot be associated with, or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a person, including any enterprise or establishment;
(4) the Secretary of Commerce or the Secr
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**(a) Confidentiality**
(1) Those officers and employees who have access to information under this Act to which the provisions of [section 9 of title 13](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title13-section9&num=0&edition=prelim) apply must have been sworn, as provided for in section 23(c) of such title, to observe the limitations imposed by section 9(a) of such title and to be subject to the provisions of section 214 of such title to the same extent as such section applies to officers or employees of the Bureau of the Census.
(2) Only those officers and employees who have sworn to observe the provisions of section 5(c) of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act ([22 U.S.C. 3104(c)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3104/c&num=0&edition=prelim)) may have access under this Act to information to which such provisions apply, and such officers and employees are subject to the penalties for improper disclosure of such information provided in section 5(e) of that Act [[22 U.S.C. 3104(e)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3104/e&num=0&edition=prelim)] to the same extent as such section applies to officers or employees designated to perform functions under that Act [[22 U.S.C. 3101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.].
(3) Those officers and employees referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this section 11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection”. shall be subject to any other restriction or penalty imposed by law with respect to disclosure of information to which such officers or employees have access under this Act.
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The Office of Management and Budget is an office in the Executive Office of the President.
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The Congress finds the following:
(1) Federal statistics are an important source of information for public and private decision-makers such as policymakers, consumers, businesses, investors, and workers.
(2) Federal statistical agencies should continuously seek to improve their efficiency. Statutory constraints limit the ability of these agencies to share data and thus to achieve higher efficiency for Federal statistical programs.
(3) The quality of Federal statistics depends on the willingness of businesses to respond to statistical surveys. Reducing reporting burdens will increase response rates, and therefore lead to more accurate characterizations of the economy.
(4) Enhanced sharing of business data among the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics for exclusively statistical purposes will improve their ability to track more accurately the large and rapidly changing nature of United States business. In particular, the statistical agencies will be able to better ensure that businesses are consistently classified in appropriate industries, resolve data anomalies, produce statistical samples that are consistently adjusted for the entry and exit of new businesses in a timely manner, and correct faulty reporting errors quickly and efficiently.
(5) Congress enacted the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (Public Law 94–472), which allowed the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to share data on foreign-owned companies. The Act not only expanded detailed industry coverage from 135 industries to over 800 industries with no increase in the data collected from respondents but also demonstrated how data sharing can result in the creation of valuab
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