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§17333 United States Trade Missions to Encourage Private Sector Trade and Investment

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 › § 17333

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Commerce must have the International Trade Administration start or expand trade missions involving the United States to help private companies trade and invest in clean, efficient energy technologies. Missions include trips abroad to link U.S. firms with foreign markets and reverse trips that bring foreign public and private groups to the U.S. to see technologies. The Secretary must send a yearly report to the appropriate congressional committees for fiscal years 2008–2012, and Congress may provide the necessary funds for those years.

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Title 42, §17333

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of Commerce shall direct the International Trade Administration to expand or create trade missions to and from the United States to encourage private sector trade and investment in clean and efficient energy technologies—
(1)by organizing and facilitating trade missions to foreign countries and by matching United States private sector companies with opportunities in foreign markets so that clean and efficient energy technologies can help to combat increases in global greenhouse gas emissions; and
(2)by creating reverse trade missions in which the Department of Commerce facilitates the meeting of foreign private and public sector organizations with private sector companies in the United States for the purpose of showcasing clean and efficient energy technologies in use or in development that could be exported to other countries.
(b)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)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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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 17333

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60