Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102
§182 Statistics of Manufactures
Title 15 › CHAPTER 5 — STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION › § 182
Summary
The Bureau's Director must collect and organize manufacturing statistics for use by Congress: where factories are, raw material sources, markets, transport of goods, wages, and other factors that affect industry prosperity.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §182
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The Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall collect, digest, and arrange, for the use of Congress, the statistics of the manufactures of the United States, their localities, sources of raw material, markets, exchanges with the producing regions of the country, transportation of products, wages, and such other conditions as are found to affect their prosperity.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 342 derived from act July 28, 1866, ch. 298, § 13, 14 Stat. 330.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act Mar. 1, 1919, substituted “Director” for “Chief”.
Transfer of Functions
Act Aug. 23, 1912, transferred certain duties of Department or Bureau of Labor to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For
Transfer of Functions
of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, see note set out under section 172 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 182
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102