Title 19, Customs DutiesRelease 119-110

§3513 Implementing Actions in Anticipation of Entry Into Force; Regulations

Title 19 › CHAPTER 22 — URUGUAY ROUND TRADE AGREEMENTS › SUBCHAPTER I — APPROVAL OF, AND GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO, URUGUAY ROUND AGREEMENTS › Part A — Approval of Agreements and Related Provisions › § 3513

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

After December 8, 1994, the President can order actions and other federal officers can make rules needed to put into effect any part of this law or its changes that starts when a Uruguay Round Agreement becomes effective for the United States. Those orders or rules cannot start before the agreement’s effective date for the United States. Any temporary rule needed under the statement of administrative action approved under section 3511(a) to implement an agreement listed in section 3511(d)(7), (12), or (13) must be issued no later than 1 year after that agreement becomes effective for the United States.

Full Legal Text

Title 19, §3513

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(a)Implementing actions
After December 8, 1994—
(1)the President may proclaim such actions, and
(2)other appropriate officers of the United States Government may issue such regulations,
as may be necessary to ensure that any provision of this Act, or amendment made by this Act, that takes effect on the date any of the Uruguay Round Agreements enters into force with respect to the United States is appropriately implemented on such date. Such proclamation or regulation may not have an effective date earlier than the date of entry into force with respect to the United States of the agreement to which the proclamation or regulation relates.
(b)Regulations
Any interim regulation necessary or appropriate to carry out any action proposed in the statement of administrative action approved under section 3511(a) of this title to implement an agreement described in section 3511(d)(7), (12), or (13) of this title shall be issued not later than 1 year after the date on which the agreement enters into force with respect to the United States.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 103–465, Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4809, known as the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3501 of this title and Tables.

Executive Documents

Uruguay Round Agreements: Entry Into ForceThe Uruguay Round Agreements, including the World Trade Organization Agreement and agreements annexed to that Agreement, as referred to in section 3511(d) of this title, entered into force with respect to the United States on Jan. 1, 1995. See note set out under section 3511 of this title.

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Citation

19 U.S.C. § 3513

Title 19, Customs Duties

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110