Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§5202 Policy

Title 7 › CHAPTER 83 — AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS AND TRADE › SUBCHAPTER I — FINDINGS, POLICY, AND PURPOSE › § 5202

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States must help sell farm goods overseas at competitive prices and make sure those goods are good quality and available when needed. The government will back free and fair trade, fully support the negotiation goals in section 2901(b) of title 19 to reduce trade barriers, use its legal powers (like export promotion programs and, if needed, import limits) to fight unfair foreign trade practices, and give U.S. farm trade interests a stronger voice in national fiscal and monetary decisions about trade.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §5202

Agriculture, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

It is the policy of the United States—

(1)to provide, through all possible means, agricultural commodities and products for export at competitive prices, with full assurance of quality and reliability of supply;

(2)to support the principle of free trade and the promotion of fair trade in agricultural commodities and products;

(3)to support fully the negotiating objectives set forth in section 2901(b) of title 19 to eliminate or reduce substantially constraints on fair and open trade in agricultural commodities and products;

(4)to use statutory authority to counter unfair foreign trade practices and to use all available means, including export promotion programs, and, if necessary, restrictions on United States imports of agricultural commodities and products, in order to encourage fair and open trade; and

(5)to provide for increased representation of United States agricultural trade interests in the formulation of national fiscal and monetary policy affecting trade.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 5202

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102