§ 172. — Transfer of duties of Department of Labor; special investigations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC172]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 5--STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
Sec. 172. Transfer of duties of Department of Labor; special
investigations
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.
(Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 407.)
References in Text
The quoted language of this section was originally enacted by act
June 13, 1888, ch. 389, Sec. 7, 25 Stat. 183, which charged the duties
to the Commissioner of Labor.
Transfer of Functions
Functions of all other officers of Department of Commerce and
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few
exceptions, transferred to Secretary of Commerce, with power vested in
him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his
functions by any such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. Plan
No. 5 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat.
1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees. Through internal reorganizations, functions of Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce have been reassigned to other offices of
Department of Commerce.
