Title 19 — Customs DutiesRelease 119-73not60

§2576 General

Title 19 › Chapter 13— TRADE AGREEMENTS ACT OF 1979 › Subchapter II— TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE (STANDARDS) › Part E— Standards and Measures Under the North American Free Trade Agreement › Subpart 2— standards-related measures › § 2576

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Lets federal agencies do standards-related work, including rules for safety and for protecting people, animals, plants, health, the environment, or consumers. It also keeps each agency’s power to decide how much safety or protection it thinks is needed. It does not apply to technical specifications an agency makes for its own production or consumption needs, or to sanitary or phytosanitary measures under subpart 1.

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Title 19, §2576

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(a)Nothing in this subpart shall be construed—

(1)to prohibit a Federal agency from engaging in activity related to standards-related measures, including any such measure relating to safety, the protection of human, animal, or plant life or health, the environment or consumers; or

(2)to limit the authority of a Federal agency to determine the level it considers appropriate of safety or of protection of human, animal, or plant life or health, the environment or consumers.

(b)This subpart does not apply to—

(1)technical specifications prepared by a Federal agency for production or consumption requirements of the agency; or

(2)sanitary or phytosanitary measures under subpart 1.

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 2576

Title 19 — Customs Duties

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60