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Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73not60

§2433 United States Personnel Missing in Action in Southeast Asia

Title 19 › Chapter 12— TRADE ACT OF 1974 › Subchapter IV— TRADE RELATIONS WITH COUNTRIES NOT RECEIVING NONDISCRIMINATORY TREATMENT › Part 1— Trade Relations With Certain Countries › § 2433

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

If the President finds that a nonmarket-economy country (one with a largely government-controlled economy) is not helping the United States to find all U.S. military and civilian personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia, to bring home any who are alive, or to return the remains of those who died, then three penalties apply. Its goods can be denied equal trade treatment, it cannot take part in U.S. credit or investment guarantee programs, and any commercial agreement under this subchapter with the United States will not go into effect. This does not apply to any country whose products were eligible for the tariff rates in rate column 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States on January 3, 1975.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §2433

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(a)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the President determines that a nonmarket economy country is not cooperating with the United States—
(1)to achieve a complete accounting of all United States military and civilian personnel who are missing in action in Southeast Asia,
(2)to repatriate such personnel who are alive, and
(3)to return the remains of such personnel who are dead to the United States,
(A)the products of such country may not receive nondiscriminatory treatment,
(B)such country may not participate, directly or indirectly, in any program under which the United States extends credit, credit guarantees, or investment guarantees, and
(C)no commercial agreement entered into under this subchapter between such country and the United States will take effect.
(b)This section shall not apply to any country the products of which are eligible for the rates set forth in rate column numbered 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States on January 3, 1975.

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The Tariff Schedules of the United States, referred to in subsec. (b), to be treated as a reference to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, pursuant to section 3012 of this title. The Harmonized Tariff Schedule is not set out in the Code. See Publication of Harmonized Tariff Schedule note set out under section 1202 of this title.

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19 U.S.C. § 2433

Title 19 — Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60