§ 4729. — Report on export policy.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC4729]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 73--EXPORT ENHANCEMENT
SUBCHAPTER III--EXPORT PROMOTION
Sec. 4729. Report on export policy
(a) In general
Not later than May 31 of each year, the Secretary of Commerce shall
submit to the Congress a report on the international economic position
of the United States and, not later than June 30 of each year, shall
appear before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of
the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives to testify on issues addressed in that report.
(b) Contents
(1) In general
Each report required under subsection (a) of this section shall
address--
(A) the state of United States international economic
competitiveness, focusing, in particular, on the efforts of the
Department of Commerce--
(i) to encourage research and development of
technologies and products deemed critical for industrial
leadership;
(ii) to promote investment in and improved manufacturing
processes for such technologies and products; and
(iii) to increase United States industrial exports of
products using the technologies described in clause (i) to
those markets where the United States Government has sought
to reduce barriers to exports;
(B) the report on the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee
strategic plan submitted to the Congress in accordance with
section 4727(f) of this title;
(C) other specific recommendations of the Department of
Commerce to improve the United States balance of trade;
(D) the effects on the international economic
competitiveness of the United States of--
(i) formal and informal trade barriers; and
(ii) subsidies by foreign countries to their domestic
industries;
(E) the efforts of the Department of Commerce to reduce
trade barriers;
(F) the adequacy of export financing programs of the United
States Government and recommendations for improving such
programs;
(G) the status, activities, and effectiveness of the United
States commercial centers established under section 4723a of
this title;
(H) the implementation of sections 5821 and 5822 of title 22
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States Business and Agriculture Advisory Council;
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(I) the programs of other industrialized nations to assist
their companies with their efforts to transact business in the
independent states of the former Soviet Union; and
(J) the trading practices of other Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development nations, as well as the pricing
practices of transitional economies in the independent states,
that may disadvantage United States companies.
(2) Policy basis for reports
Portions of each report under this section may incorporate or be
based upon relevant reports and testimony produced by the Department
of Commerce or other agencies, but the policy views shall be those
of the Secretary of Commerce.
(Pub. L. 100-418, title II, Sec. 2314, as added Pub. L. 102-429, title
II, Sec. 206, Oct. 21, 1992, 106 Stat. 2204; amended Pub. L. 104-66,
title I, Sec. 1022(b), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 713.)
References in Text
Sections 5821 and 5822 of title 22, referred to in subsec.
(b)(1)(H), was, in the original, ``sections 301 and 302 of the Freedom
for Russia and Emerging Democracies and Open Markets Support Act of 1992
(22 U.S.C. 5821 and 5822)'', and was translated as meaning sections 301
and 302 of the Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and
Open Markets Support Act of 1992, Pub. L. 102-511, to reflect the
probable intent of Congress.
Amendments
1995--Subsec. (b)(1)(G) to (J). Pub. L. 104-66 added subpars. (G) to
(J).
Change of Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
