Title 19, Customs DutiesRelease 119-110
§2118 Access to Supplies
Title 19 › CHAPTER 12 — TRADE ACT OF 1974 › SUBCHAPTER I — NEGOTIATING AND OTHER AUTHORITY › Part 1 — Rates of Duty and Other Trade Barriers › § 2118
Summary
The United States aims to make trade deals that give fair, affordable access to important goods it cannot easily make at home. Those deals can include promises to keep those goods available at reasonable prices and let the United States offer matching trade concessions or similar obligations in return.
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Title 19, §2118
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(a)Fair and equitable access
A principal United States negotiating objective under section 2112 of this title shall be to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries and instrumentalities to assure the United States of fair and equitable access at reasonable prices to supplies of articles of commerce which are important to the economic requirements of the United States and for which the United States does not have, or cannot easily develop, the necessary domestic productive capacity to supply its own requirements.
(b)Continued availability; reciprocal concessions; comparable trade obligations
Any agreement entered into under section 2112 of this title may include provisions which—
(1)assure to the United States the continued availability of important articles at reasonable prices, and
(2)provide reciprocal concessions or comparable trade obligations, or both, by the United States.
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19 U.S.C. § 2118
Title 19, Customs Duties
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110