19 U.S.C. § 4013 — Implementing actions in anticipation of entry into force and initial regulations

(a) Implementing actions. (1) After August 2, 2005, the President may proclaim actions and other appropriate United States officers may issue regulations needed to implement on the entry-into-force date any provision or amendment taking effect then. No action or regulation may take effect earlier than that date. (2) A Presidential action not subject to section 4014 consultation and layover may not take effect before the 15th day after its Federal Register publication. (3) That 15-day limit is waived as needed to make an action effective on the Agreement’s entry-into-force date.

(b) Initial regulations. Regulations needed or appropriate for actions required or authorized by this chapter, or proposed in the section 4011(a)(2) administrative-action statement, must, to the maximum feasible extent, issue within one year after entry into force. For an action effective later, its initial regulations must, to that extent, issue within one year after that later effective date.