§2114b — Title 19 Customs Duties | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Commerce must set up a program to help U.S. service industries compete in world markets. The program must make policies, build a database, and collect and study information about how U.S. services do business and face competition abroad. It must look at things like foreign government rules, U.S. federal, state, and local rules, taxes, international agreements, antitrust rules, and whether U.S. policies and export efforts are strong enough. The program must do research, make forecasts, and study specific service sectors. When collecting and reporting data, the Department must separate income from investment and income from noninvestment services. Every two years, starting in 1986, the Secretary must send a report of the findings to the President and Congress within 120 days after the report period ends. The work must be paid from funds already available to the Secretary. Services means economic activities that make things you can’t touch, such as banking, insurance, transport, communications and data processing, trade, advertising and accounting, construction and engineering, consulting and real estate, professional services, entertainment, education, health care, and tourism.

Title 19, §2114b

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(1)The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a service industries development program designed to—

(A)develop, in consultation with other Federal agencies as appropriate, policies regarding services that are designed to increase the competitiveness of United States service industries in foreign commerce;

(B)develop a data base for assessing the adequacy of Government policies and actions pertaining to services, including, but not limited to, data on trade, both aggregate and pertaining to individual service industries;

(C)collect and analyze, in consultation with appropriate agencies, information pertaining to the international operations and competitiveness of United States service industries, including information with respect to—

(i)policies of foreign governments toward foreign and United States service industries;

(ii)Federal, State, and local regulation of both foreign and United States suppliers of services, and the effect of such regulation on trade;

(iii)the adequacy of current United States policies to strengthen the competitiveness of United States service industries in foreign commerce, including export promotion activities in the service sector;

(iv)tax treatment of services, with particular emphasis on the effect of United States taxation on the international competitiveness of United States firms and exports;

(v)treatment of services under international agreements of the United States;

(vi)antitrust policies as such policies affect the competitiveness of United States firms; and

(vii)treatment of services in international agreements of the United States;

(D)conduct a program of research and analysis of service-related issues and problems, including forecasts and industrial strategies; and

(E)conduct sectoral studies of domestic service industries.

(2)For purposes of the collection and analysis required by paragraph (1), and for the purpose of any reporting the Department of Commerce makes under paragraph (3), such collection and reporting shall distinguish between income from investment and income from noninvestment services.

(3)On not less than a biennial basis beginning in 1986, the Secretary shall prepare a report which analyzes the information collected under paragraph (1). Such report shall be submitted to the Congress and to the President by not later than the date that is 120 days after the close of the period covered by the report.

(4)The Secretary of Commerce shall carry out the provisions of this subsection from funds otherwise made available to him which may be used for such purposes.

(5)For purposes of this section, the term “services” means economic activities whose outputs are other than tangible goods. Such term includes, but is not limited to, banking, insurance, transportation, postal and delivery services, communications and data processing, retail and wholesale trade, advertising, accounting, construction, design and engineering, management consulting, real estate, professional services, entertainment, education, health care, and tourism.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the International Trade and Investment Act, and also as part of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984, and not as part of the Trade Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter. Section is comprised of subsec. (a) of section 306 of Pub. L. 98–573. Subsec. (b) of such section amended section 3101, 3103, and 3104 and a provision set out as a note under section 3101 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse; subsec. (c)(1), (2)(A) of such section is classified to section 2114c of this title; and subsec. (c)(2)(B), (C) of such section amended section 2114, 2155, 2413, and 2414 of this title.

Amendments

1998—Par. (5). Pub. L. 105–277, which directed the amendment of par. (5) by inserting “postal and delivery services,” after “transportation.” in second sentence, was executed by making the insertion after “transportation,” to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

§2114b Provisions Relating to International Trade in Services

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Title 19, §2114b

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