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19 U.S.C. § 2503 — Auction of import licenses

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19 U.S.C. § 2503 — Auction of import licenses

**(a) In general** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President may sell import licenses at public auction under such terms and conditions as he deems appropriate. Regulations prescribed under this subsection shall, to the extent practicable and consistent with efficient and fair administration, insure against inequitable sharing of imports by a relatively small number of the larger importers. **(b) “Import license” defined** For purposes of this section, the term “import license” means any documentation used to administer a quantitative restriction imposed or modified after July 26, 1979 under— (1) section 125, 203, 301, or 406 of the Trade Act of 1974 ([19 U.S.C. 2135](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2135&num=0&edition=prelim), 2253, 2411, or 2436), (2) the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ([50 U.S.C. 1701–170](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1701–170&num=0&edition=prelim)6), (3) authority under the notes of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, but not including any quantitative restriction imposed under section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1934 ([7 U.S.C. 624](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section624&num=0&edition=prelim)), (4) the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 1–44),11 See References in Text note below. (5) section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956 ([7 U.S.C. 1854](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1854&num=0&edition=prelim)) other than for meat or meat products, or (6) any Act enacted explicitly for the purpose of implementing an international agreement to which the United States is a party, including such agreements relating to

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13 U.S.C. § 301 — Collection and publication

**(a)** The Secretary is authorized to collect information from all persons exporting from, or importing into, the United States and the noncontiguous areas over which the United States exercises sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control, and from all persons engaged in trade between the United States and such noncontiguous areas and between those areas, or from the owners, or operators of carriers engaged in such foreign commerce or trade, and shall compile and publish such information pertaining to exports, imports, trade, and transportation relating thereto, as he deems necessary or appropriate to enable him to foster, promote, develop, and further the commerce, domestic and foreign, of the United States and for other lawful purposes. **(b)** The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate, on quarterly and cumulative bases, statistics on United States imports for consumption and United States exports by country and by product. Statistics on United States imports shall be submitted in accordance with the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Annotated for Statistical Reporting Purposes and general statistical note 1 thereof, in detail as follows: (1) net quantity; (2) United States customs value; (3) purchase price or its equivalent; (4) equivalent of arm’s length value; (5) aggregate cost from port of exportation to United States port of entry; (6) a United States port of entry value comprised of (5) plus (4), if applicable, or, if not applicable, (5) plus (3); and (7) for transactions where (3) and (4) are equal, the total value of such transactions. The data for paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), and (6) shall be reported separately for nonrelated and related party t

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50 U.S.C. § 1701 — Unusual and extraordinary threat; declaration of national emergency; exercise of Presidential authorities

**(a)** Any authority granted to the President by [section 1702 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1702&num=0&edition=prelim) may be exercised to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat. **(b)** The authorities granted to the President by [section 1702 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1702&num=0&edition=prelim) may only be exercised to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat with respect to which a national emergency has been declared for purposes of this chapter and may not be exercised for any other purpose. Any exercise of such authorities to deal with any new threat shall be based on a new declaration of national emergency which must be with respect to such threat.

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19 U.S.C. § 2135 — Compensation authority

**(a) New concessions** Whenever— (1) any action taken under part 1 of subchapter II or subchapter III, or under part 2 of subchapter IV of this chapter; or (2) any judicial or administrative tariff reclassification that becomes final after August 23, 1988; increases or imposes any duty or other import restriction, the President— (A) may enter into trade agreements with foreign countries or instrumentalities for the purpose of granting new concessions as compensation in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions; and (B) may proclaim such modification or continuance of any existing duty, or such continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, as he determines to be required or appropriate to carry out any such agreement. **(b) Reductions in rates of duty** (1) No proclamation shall be made pursuant to subsection (a) decreasing any rate of duty to a rate which is less than 70 percent of the existing rate of duty. (2) Where the rate of duty in effect at any time is an intermediate stage under [section 2902(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2902/a&num=0&edition=prelim), the proclamation made pursuant to subsection (a) may provide for the reduction of each rate of duty at each such stage proclaimed under such [section 2902(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2902/a&num=0&edition=prelim) by not more than 30 percent of such rate of duty, and may provide for a final rate of duty which is not less than 70 percent of the rate of duty proclaimed as the final stage under such [section 2902(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2902/a&num=0&edition=prel

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19 U.S.C. § 2101 — Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund

**(a) Creation of Trust Fund** There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund”, consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or credited to such Trust Fund as provided in this section. **(b) Transfer to Trust Fund** (1) **In general** — There are appropriated to the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund amounts equivalent to 3.08 percent of the amounts received in the general fund of the Treasury of the United States during fiscal years 2008 through 2011 attributable to the duties collected on articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. (2) **Amounts based on estimates** — The amounts appropriated under this section shall be transferred at least monthly from the general fund of the Treasury of the United States to the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund on the basis of estimates made by the Secretary of the Treasury. Proper adjustments shall be made in the amounts subsequently transferred to the extent prior estimates were in excess of or less than the amounts required to be transferred. (3) **Limitation on transfers to Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund** — No amount may be appropriated to the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund on and after the date of any expenditure from the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund which is not permitted by this section. The determination of whether an expenditure is so permitted shall be made without regard to— (A) any provision of law which is not contained or referenced in this subchapter or in a revenue Act, and (B) whether such provision of law is a subsequently enacted provision or directly or indirectly seeks to waive the application of t

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5 U.S.C. § 5315 — Positions at level IV

Level IV of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):

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7 U.S.C. § 624 — Limitation on imports; authority of President

**(a)** Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe that any article or articles are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, any program or operation undertaken under this chapter or the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended [[16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], or [section 612c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section612c&num=0&edition=prelim), or any loan, purchase, or other program or operation undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, or any agency operating under its direction, with respect to any agricultural commodity or product thereof, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from any agricultural commodity or product thereof with respect to which any such program or operation is being undertaken, he shall so advise the President, and, if the President agrees that there is reason for such belief, the President shall cause an immediate investigation to be made by the United States International Trade Commission, which shall give precedence to investigations under this section to determine such facts. Such investigation shall be made after due notice and opportunity for hearing to interested parties, and shall be conducted subject to such regulations as the President shall specify. **(b)** If, on the basis of such investigation and report to him of findings and recommendations made in connection therewith, the President finds the existence of such facts, he shall by proclamation impose such fees

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19 U.S.C. § 1202 — Harmonized Tariff Schedule

### 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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7 U.S.C. § 1854 — Agreements limiting imports

The President may, whenever he determines such action appropriate, negotiate with representatives of foreign governments in an effort to obtain agreements limiting the export from such countries and the importation into the United States of any agricultural commodity or product manufactured therefrom or textiles or textile products, and the President is authorized to issue regulations governing the entry or withdrawal from warehouse of any such commodity, product, textiles, or textile products to carry out any such agreement. In addition, if a multilateral agreement, including but not limited to the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing referred to in [section 3511(d)(4) of title 19](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section3511/d/4&num=0&edition=prelim), has been or is concluded under the authority of this section among countries accounting for a significant part of world trade in the articles with respect to which the agreement was concluded, the President may also issue, in order to carry out such agreement, regulations governing the entry or withdrawal from warehouse of the same articles which are the products of countries not parties to the agreement, or countries to which the United States does not apply the agreement. Nothing herein shall affect the authority provided under [section 624 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section624&num=0&edition=prelim).

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19 U.S.C. § 3001 — Purposes

The purposes of this chapter are— (1) to approve the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System; (2) to implement in United States law the nomenclature established internationally by the Convention; and (3) to provide that the Convention shall be treated as a trade agreement obligation of the United States.

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19 U.S.C. § 2113 — Basic authority for trade agreements

**(a) Presidential authority to enter into agreement; modification or continuance of existing duties** Whenever the President determines that any existing duties or other import restrictions of any foreign country or the United States are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the purposes of this chapter will be promoted thereby, the President— (1) during the 5-year period beginning on January 3, 1975, may enter into trade agreements with foreign countries or instrumentalities thereof; and (2) may proclaim such modification or continuance of any existing duty, such continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or such additional duties, as he determines to be required or appropriate to carry out any such trade agreement. **(b) Limitation on authority to decrease duty** (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no proclamation pursuant to subsection (a)(2) shall be made decreasing a rate of duty to a rate below 40 percent of the rate existing on January 1, 1975. (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of any article for which the rate of duty existing on January 1, 1975, is not more than 5 percent ad valorem. **(c) Limitation on authority to increase duty** No proclamation shall be made pursuant to subsection (a)(2) increasing any rate of duty to, or imposing a rate above, the higher of the following: (1) the rate which is 50 percent above the rate set forth in rate column numbered 2 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States as in effect on January 1, 1975, or (2) the rate which is 20 percent ad valorem above the rate existing on January 1, 1975.

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