Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73

§2117 International safeguard procedures

Title 19 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - TRADE ACT OF 1974 › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - NEGOTIATING AND OTHER AUTHORITY › Part Part 1— - Rates of Duty and Other Trade Barriers › § 2117

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Requires U.S. negotiators to get international rules in trade talks that allow short-term steps to help countries adjust when growing trade changes competition at home. These talks are about aligning or lowering trade barriers and fixing trade distortions. Agreements can set up procedures for five things: telling affected exporters, international talks, checking changes in trade flows, making trade adjustments, and mediation. They can also, under set conditions, let parties avoid compensation or retaliation and allow public domestic procedures where interested people can take part.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §2117

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(a)A principal United States negotiating objective under section 2112 of this title shall be to obtain internationally agreed upon rules and procedures, in the context of the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of barriers to, and other distortions of, international trade, which permit the use of temporary measures to ease adjustment to changes occurring in competitive conditions in the domestic markets of the parties to an agreement resulting from such negotiations due to the expansion of international trade.

(b)Any agreement entered into under section 2112 of this title may include provisions establishing procedures for—

(1)notification of affected exporting countries,

(2)international consultations,

(3)international review of changes in trade flows,

(4)making adjustments in trade flows as the result of such changes, and

(5)international mediation.

(A)exclude, under specified conditions, the parties thereto from compensation obligations and retaliation, and

(B)permit domestic public procedures through which interested parties have the right to participate.

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 2117

Title 19 — Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73