Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73

§4907 Operation of Data Bank

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 75— - NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK › § 4907

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must operate the Data Bank to give people effective ways to find and use its data. The system must use modern tools to monitor, sort, analyze, and share data; serve seven U.S. groups (including policymakers, businesses, workers, industry and farm groups, and state/local development agencies); support coordinated trade strategies; and work with nonprofits that complement the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §4907

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The Secretary shall manage the Data Bank to provide the most appropriate data retrieval system or systems possible. Such system or systems shall—

(1)be designed to utilize data processing and retrieval technology in monitoring, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating the data and information contained in the Data Bank;

(2)use the most effective and meaningful means of organizing and making such information available to—

(A)United States Government policymakers;

(B)United States business firms;

(C)United States workers;

(D)United States industry associations;

(E)United States agricultural interests;

(F)State and local economic development agencies; and

(G)other interested United States persons who could benefit from such information;

(3)be of such quality and timeliness and in such form as to assist coordinated trade strategies for the United States; and

(4)facilitate dissemination of information through nonprofit organizations with significant outreach programs which complement the regional outreach programs of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 4907

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73