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15 U.S.C. § 643 — Fair charge for use of Government-owned property
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To the fullest extent the Administration deems practicable, it shall make a fair charge for the use of Government-owned property and make and let contracts on a basis that will result in a recovery of the direct costs incurred by the Administration.
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To the fullest extent the Administration deems practicable, it shall make a fair charge for the use of Government-owned property and make and let contracts on a basis that will result in a recovery of the direct costs incurred by the Administration.
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) **Office** — There is established within the Administration an Office of International Trade which shall implement the programs pursuant to this section for the primary purposes of increasing—
(A) the number of small business concerns that export; and
(B) the volume of exports by small business concerns.
(2) **Associate Administrator** — The head of the Office shall be the Associate Administrator for International Trade, who shall be responsible to the Administrator.
**(b) Trade distribution network** The Associate Administrator, working in close cooperation with the Secretary of Commerce, the United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of State, the President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Board of Directors of the United States International Development Finance Corporation, the Director of the United States Trade and Development Agency, and other relevant Federal agencies, small business development centers engaged in export promotion efforts, Export Assistance Centers, regional and district offices of the Administration, the small business community, and relevant State and local export promotion programs, shall—
(1) maintain a distribution network, using regional and district offices of the Administration, the small business development center network, networks of women’s business centers, the Service Corps of Retired Executives authorized by [section 637(b)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section637/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim), and Export Assistance Centers, for programs relating to—
(A) trade promotion;
(B) trade finance;
(C) trade adjustment assistance;
(D) trade remedy assistance; and
(E) trade data colle
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**(a) Small business procurements**
(1) **In general** — For purposes of this chapter, small business concerns shall receive any award or contract if such award or contract is, in the determination of the Administrator and the contracting agency, in the interest of—
(A) maintaining or mobilizing the full productive capacity of the United States;
(B) war or national defense programs; or
(C) assuring that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for goods and services of the Government in each industry category (as defined under paragraph (2)) are awarded to small business concerns.
(2) **Industry category defined**
(A) *In general* — In this subsection, the term “industry category” means a discrete group of similar goods and services, as determined by the Administrator in accordance with the North American Industry Classification System codes used to establish small business size standards, except that the Administrator shall limit an industry category to a greater extent than provided under the North American Industry Classification System codes if the Administrator receives evidence indicating that further segmentation of the industry category is warranted—
(i) due to special capital equipment needs;
(ii) due to special labor requirements;
(iii) due to special geographic requirements, except as provided in subparagraph (B);
(iv) due to unique Federal buying patterns or requirements; or
(v) to recognize a new industry.
(B) *Exception for geographic requirements* — The Administrator may not further segment an industry category based on geographic requirements unless—
(i) the Government typically designates the geographic area where work for contracts for goods or services is to be performed;
(ii) Governmen
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**(a) Aid, counsel, assistance, etc., to small business concerns** The essence of the American economic system of private enterprise is free competition. Only through full and free competition can free markets, free entry into business, and opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment be assured. The preservation and expansion of such competition is basic not only to the economic well-being but to the security of this Nation. Such security and well-being cannot be realized unless the actual and potential capacity of small business is encouraged and developed. It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small-business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts or subcontracts for property and services for the Government (including but not limited to contracts or subcontracts for maintenance, repair, and construction) be placed with small-business enterprises, to insure that a fair proportion of the total sales of Government property be made to such enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
**(b) Assistance to compete in international markets**
(1) It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Federal Government, through the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, acting through the Associate Administrator for International Trade, and in cooperation with the Department of Commerce and other relevant State and Federal agencies, should aid and assist small businesses, as defined under this chapter, to increase their ability to compete in international markets by—
(A) enhancing their abil
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 644
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
Prior similar provisions were contained in section 219
of act July 30, 1953, ch. 282, title II, 67 Stat. 239, which
was previously classified to section 648 of this title. The
provisions of section 213 of act July 30, 1953, formerly
classified to this section, were transferred to section
2[8] of Pub. L. 85–536, and are classified to section
637(b)(6), (7) of this title. See Codification note set out
under section 631 of this title.
§ 643. Fair charge for use of Government-owned
property
To the fullest extent the Administration
deems practicable, it shall make a fair charge
for the use of Government-owned property and
make and let contracts on a basis that will re-
sult in a recovery of the direct costs incurred by
the Administration.
(Pub. L. 85–536, § 2[14], July 18, 1958, 72 Stat. 395.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
Prior similar provisions were contained in section 220
of act July 30, 1953, ch. 282, title II, 67 Stat. 240, which
was previously classified to section 649 of this title. The
provisions of section 214 of act July 30, 1953, formerly
classified to this section, were transferred to section
2[15] of Pub. L. 85–536, and are classified to section 644
of this title. See Codification note set out under section
631 of this title.
§ 644. Awards or contracts
(a) Small business procurements
(1) In general
For purposes of this chapter, small business
concerns shall receive any award or contract if
such award or contract is, in the determina-
tion of the Administrator and the contracting
agency, in the interest of—
(A) maintaining or mobilizing the full pro-
ductive capacity of the United States;
(B) war or national defense programs; or
(C) assuring that a
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