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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§17332 United States Exports and Outreach Programs for India, China, and Other Countries

Title 42 › CHAPTER 152 — ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY › SUBCHAPTER VIII — INTERNATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAMS › Part A — Assistance To Promote Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies in Foreign Countries › § 17332

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Commerce must set up or grow a team of Foreign Commercial Service officers to promote U.S. exports of clean and efficient energy technologies. These officers must be trained or assigned to do business outreach and to teach government officials in India, China, and other countries the Secretary picks about U.S. clean energy options to help exports and cut global greenhouse gas emissions. The Secretary must send Congress a yearly report on this work for each fiscal year 2008 through 2012. Congress may fund the program with whatever money is needed for those same years.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §17332

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(a)Assistance authorized
The Secretary of Commerce shall direct the United States and Foreign Commercial Service to expand or create a corps of the Foreign Commercial Service officers to promote United States exports in clean and efficient energy technologies and build the capacity of government officials in India, China, and any other country the Secretary of Commerce determines appropriate, to become more familiar with the available technologies—
(1)by assigning or training Foreign Commercial Service attachés, who have expertise in clean and efficient energy technologies from the United States, to embark on business development and outreach efforts to such countries; and
(2)by deploying the attachés described in paragraph (1) to educate provincial, state, and local government officials in such countries on the variety of United States-based technologies in clean and efficient energy technologies for the purposes of promoting United States exports and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
(b)Report
The Secretary of Commerce shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an annual report on the implementation of this section for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.
(c)Authorization of appropriations
To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

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Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.

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42 U.S.C. § 17332

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110