Title 19, Customs DutiesRelease 119-110

§2117 International Safeguard Procedures

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The U.S. must try to get international rules that let countries use short-term measures to help workers and businesses adjust when growing trade changes competition at home. Trade deals made under that negotiating authority can include ways to notify affected exporters, hold international talks and reviews, adjust trade flows, and use international mediation. They can also allow parties to be exempt from compensation or retaliation in certain cases and let the public take part in domestic procedures.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §2117

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(a)Harmonization, reduction, or elimination of barriers and distortions affecting international trade; use of temporary measures

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)Permissible provisions

Any agreement entered into under section 2112 of this title may include provisions establishing procedures for— (1)

(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.

Such agreements may also include provisions which—

(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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110