Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73
§2533 State and private standards-related activities
Title 19 › Chapter CHAPTER 13— - TRADE AGREEMENTS ACT OF 1979 › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE (STANDARDS) › Part Part A— - Obligations of the United States › § 2533
Summary
Congress says state agencies and private people must not do standards-related work that needlessly blocks U.S. trade with other countries. The President must try to get states and private people, when they make standards, to follow the same rules federal agencies follow under section 2532 and to give notice, allow participation, and publish what they do.
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Title 19, §2533
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(a)It is the sense of the Congress that no State agency and no private person should engage in any standards-related activity that creates unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States.
(b)The President shall take such reasonable measures as may be available to promote the observance by State agencies and private persons, in carrying out standards-related activities, of requirements equivalent to those imposed on Federal agencies under section 2532 of this title, and of procedures that provide for notification, participation, and publication with respect to such activities.
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19 U.S.C. § 2533
Title 19 — Customs Duties
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73