Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§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 certain congressional committees. The report must explain whether the United States can increase space-related trade with the independent states of the former Soviet Union; include a plan to find and assess space hardware, technology, and services available from those states; list specific items already or possibly discussed under section 5871(c); give details and results of trade missions under section 5872(a), including private-sector involvement; describe any trade barriers in the U.S. or the independent states; and note any anticompetitive problems seen under section 5872(b).

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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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102