Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§5873 Report to Congress

Title 22 › Chapter 67— FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA AND EMERGING EURASIAN DEMOCRACIES AND OPEN MARKETS SUPPORT › Subchapter V— SPACE TRADE AND COOPERATION › § 5873

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Summary

Within one year after October 24, 1992, the President must send a report to the congressional committees named in the law. The report must describe opportunities to increase space-related trade with the independent states that used to be part of the Soviet Union; a plan to find and evaluate unique space hardware, technology, and services those states can offer; which specific items have been or could be discussed; the trade missions held, who privately joined them, and their results; any rules or practical problems in the United States or those states that block trade; and any anticompetitive issues noticed during negotiations.

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Title 22, §5873

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Within one year after October 24, 1992, the President shall submit to the designated congressional committees a report describing—

(1)the opportunities for increased space-related trade with the independent states of the former Soviet Union;

(2)a technology procurement plan for identifying and evaluating all unique space hardware, space technology, and space services available to the United States from the independent states;

(3)specific space hardware, space technology, and space services that have been, or could be, the subject of discussions described in section 5871(c) of this title;

(4)the trade missions carried out pursuant to section 5872(a) of this title, including the private participation in and the results of such missions;

(5)any barriers, regulatory or practical, that inhibit space-related trade between the United States and independent states, including any such barriers in either the United States or the independent states; and

(6)any anticompetitive issues raised during the course of negotiations, as observed pursuant to section 5872(b) of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 5873

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60