Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§5872 Office of Space Commerce

Title 22 › CHAPTER 67 — FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA AND EMERGING EURASIAN DEMOCRACIES AND OPEN MARKETS SUPPORT › SUBCHAPTER V — SPACE TRADE AND COOPERATION › § 5872

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Office of Space Commerce can run one or more trade missions to the independent states of the former Soviet Union to show U.S. aerospace companies what space hardware, technologies, services, and business conditions are available there. The Office must watch the discussions described in section 5871(c)(1) and tell the NASA Administrator how each possible purchase from those states would affect U.S. industry, including any anticompetitive problems.

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Title 22, §5872

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(a)Trade missions

The Office of Space Commerce of the Department of Commerce is authorized and encouraged to conduct one or more trade missions to appropriate independent states of the former Soviet Union for the purpose of familiarizing United States aerospace industry representatives with space hardware, space technologies, and space services that may be available from the independent states, and with the business practices and overall business climate in the independent states.

(b)Monitoring negotiations

The Office of Space Commerce—

(1)shall monitor the progress of any discussions described in section 5871(c)(1) of this title that are being conducted; and

(2)shall advise the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as to the impact on United States industry of each potential acquisition of space hardware, space technology, or space services from the independent states of the former Soviet Union, specifically including any anticompetitive issues the Office may observe.

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22 U.S.C. § 5872

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110