Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§7904 Trade-related Barriers to Export of Greenhouse Gas Intensity Reducing Technologies

Title 22 › CHAPTER 86 — CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES › § 7904

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 1 year after August 8, 2005, the United States Trade Representative must find trade barriers kept by other countries that block U.S. exports of technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse‑gas intensity to the developing countries named in the earlier required report, and, where allowed by existing bilateral, regional, and mutual trade agreements, negotiate to remove them. Within 1 year after that initial report and every year after, the Trade Representative must send Congress a report describing any progress on removing those barriers.

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Title 22, §7904

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(a)In general
Not later than 1 year after August 8, 2005, the United States Trade Representative shall (as appropriate and consistent with applicable bilateral, regional, and mutual trade agreements)—
(1)identify trade-relations barriers maintained by foreign countries to the export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices from the United States to the developing countries identified in the report submitted under section 7902(a)(2)(A) of this title; and
(2)negotiate with foreign countries for the removal of those barriers.
(b)Annual report
Not later than 1 year after the date on which a report is submitted under subsection (a)(1) and annually thereafter, the United States Trade Representative shall submit to Congress a report that describes any progress made with respect to removing the barriers identified by the United States Trade Representative under subsection (a)(1).

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided, see section 739 of Pub. L. 101–240, set out as a note under section 7901 of this title.

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22 U.S.C. § 7904

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110