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19 U.S.C. § 2435 — United States personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia
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**(a) Penalty for noncooperating countries** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the President determines that a nonmarket economy country is not cooperating with the United States—
(1) to achieve a complete accounting of all United States military and civilian personnel who are missing in action in Southeast Asia,
(2) to repatriate such personnel who are alive, and
(3) to return the remains of such personnel who are dead to the United States,
then, during the period beginning with the date of such determination and ending on the date on which the President determines such country is cooperating with the United States, he may provide that—
(A) the products of such country may not receive nondiscriminatory treatment,
(B) such country may not participate, directly or indirectly, in any program under which the United States extends credit, credit guarantees, or investment guarantees, and
(C) no commercial agreement entered into under this subchapter between such country and the United States will take effect.
**(b) Exception** This section shall not apply to any country the products of which are eligible for the rates set forth in rate column numbered 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States on January 3, 1975.
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**(a) Penalty for noncooperating countries** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the President determines that a nonmarket economy country is not cooperating with the United States—
(1) to achieve a complete accounting of all United States military and civilian personnel who are missing in action in Southeast Asia,
(2) to repatriate such personnel who are alive, and
(3) to return the remains of such personnel who are dead to the United States,
then, during the period beginning with the date of such determination and ending on the date on which the President determines such country is cooperating with the United States, he may provide that—
(A) the products of such country may not receive nondiscriminatory treatment,
(B) such country may not participate, directly or indirectly, in any program under which the United States extends credit, credit guarantees, or investment guarantees, and
(C) no commercial agreement entered into under this subchapter between such country and the United States will take effect.
**(b) Exception** This section shall not apply to any country the products of which are eligible for the rates set forth in rate column numbered 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States on January 3, 1975.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Publication of Harmonized Tariff Schedule
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is not published in the Code. A current version of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule is maintained and published periodically by the United States International Trade Commission and is available at their website and for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
#### Reference to Tariff Schedules To Be Treated as Reference to Harmonized Tariff Schedule
Reference in any law to “Tariff Schedules of the United States”, “the Tariff Schedules”, “such Schedules”, and any other general reference to the old Schedules to be treated as reference to Harmonized Tariff Schedule, see [section 3012 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section3012&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Any reference in any law to the “Tariff Schedules of the United States”, “the Tariff Schedules”, “such Schedules”, and any other general reference that clearly refers to the old Schedules shall be treated as a reference to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
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**(a) Presidential proclamation** Subject to the provisions of [section 2435(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2435/c&num=0&edition=prelim), the President may by proclamation extend nondiscriminatory treatment to the products of a foreign country which has entered into a bilateral commercial agreement referred to in [section 2435 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2435&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Limitation on period of effectiveness** The application of nondiscriminatory treatment shall be limited to the period of effectiveness of the obligations of the United States to such country under such bilateral commercial agreement. In addition, in the case of any foreign country receiving nondiscriminatory treatment pursuant to this subchapter which has entered into an agreement with the United States regarding the settlement of lendlease reciprocal aid and claims, the application of such nondiscriminatory treatment shall be limited to periods during which such country is not in arrears on its obligations under such agreement.
**(c) Suspension or withdrawal of extensions of nondiscriminatory treatment** The President may at any time suspend or withdraw any extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to any country pursuant to subsection (a) and thereby cause all products of such country to be dutiable at the rates set forth in rate column numbered 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.
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**(a) Investigation by International Trade Commission; report; publication**
(1) Upon the filing of a petition by an entity described in [section 2252(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2252/a&num=0&edition=prelim), upon request of the President or the United States Trade Representative, upon resolution of either the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or on its own motion, the International Trade Commission (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Commission”) shall promptly make an investigation to determine, with respect to imports of an article which is the product of a Communist country, whether market disruption exists with respect to an article produced by a domestic industry.
(2) The provisions of subsections (a)(3), (b)(4),11 See References in Text note below. and (c)(4) of [section 2252 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2252&num=0&edition=prelim) shall apply with respect to investigations by the Commission under paragraph (1).
(3) The Commission shall report to the President its determination with respect to each investigation under paragraph (1) and the basis therefor and shall include in each report any dissenting or separate views. If the Commission finds, as a result of its investigation, that market disruption exists with respect to an article produced by a domestic industry, it shall find the amount of the increase in, or imposition of, any duty or other import restriction on such article which is necessary to prevent or remedy such market disruption and shall include such finding in its report to the President. The Commission shall furnish to the President a transc
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TITLE 19—CUSTOMS DUTIES
§ 2435
‘‘(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if
the President takes any action under subsection (a),
the President is authorized to—
‘‘(1) restore nondiscriminatory trade treatment to
the products of Afghanistan, and
‘‘(2) extend credit, credit guarantees, and invest-
ment guarantees to, or for the benefit of, Afghanistan
under any Federal program. [sic]
only if the President provides written notice of such
restoration or extension to the Congress at least 30
days prior to the date on which such restoration or ex-
tension takes effect.
‘‘(d) For purposes of this joint resolution, the term
‘product of Afghanistan’ means any article which is
grown, produced, or manufactured (in whole or in part)
in Afghanistan.’’
Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 99–190,
§ 101(i) [title V, § 552], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1291, 1314.
EXTENSION OF NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT TO
PRODUCTS OF SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF ROMANIA
S. Con. Res. 35, July 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 1202, provided:
‘‘That the Congress approves the extension of non-
discriminatory treatment with respect to the products
of the Socialist Republic of Romania transmitted by
the President to the Congress on April 25, 1975.’’
Executive Documents
PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO EXTENSION OF
NONDISCRIMINATORY TRADE TREATMENT
AFGHANISTAN.—Proc. No. 7553, May 3, 2002, 67 F.R.
30535.
Determination of President of the United States, No.
93–3, Oct. 7, 1992, 57 F.R. 47557.
Proc. No. 5437, Jan. 31, 1986, 51 F.R. 4287.
ALBANIA.—Proc. No. 7326, June 29, 2000, 65 F.R. 41547.
Determination of President of the United States, No.
96–44, Aug. 27, 1996, 61 F.R. 45859.
Proc. No. 6445, June 15, 1992, 57 F.R. 26921.
Determination of President of the United States, No.
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