Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102
§75 Retaliation Against Country Prohibiting Importations
Title 15 › CHAPTER 2 — FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; PROMOTION OF EXPORT TRADE AND PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION › SUBCHAPTER VI — PREVENTION OF UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION › § 75
Summary
President may ban imports from any country that blocks U.S. products not harmful to health or morals while that foreign ban is in effect; the Treasury Secretary, with the President’s OK, makes rules to enforce it.
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Title 15, §75
Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Whenever any country, dependency, or colony shall prohibit the importation of any article the product of the soil or industry of the United States and not injurious to health or morals, the President shall have power to prohibit, during the period such prohibition is in force, the importation into the United States of similar articles, or in case the United States does not import similar articles from that country, then other articles, the products of such country, dependency, or colony. And the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the execution of the provisions of this section.
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 75
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102