15 U.S.C. § 172 — Transfer of duties of Department of Labor; special investigations

submitted 114 years ago by ch. 350 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 209 words · no verdicts yet

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This 1912 law transferred certain cost-of-production research duties from the Labor Department to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. That Bureau studies production costs, wages, and trusts in industries that make goods subject to U.S. tariffs. It must also investigate and report on request from the President or Congress.

Before this law, the Department of Labor, or Bureau of Labor, had the job of finding out — as early and as often as needed when industries changed — the cost of making goods that are subject to U.S. tariffs, called "dutiable" goods. This included figuring the cost in the leading countries that make these goods, broken down by unit and by type of cost; wages paid per day, week, month, year, or piece of work; hours worked per day; manufacturer and producer profits; the cost and standard of living; which goods are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business, or labor; and what effect those trusts or combinations have on production and prices. As of August 23, 1912, this job moved from the Labor Department to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, which must now perform these duties. That Bureau must also carry out special investigations and reports on particular topics whenever the President or either house of Congress asks.

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The duties of the Department of Labor, or Bureau of Labor, “to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices”, are, as of August 23, 1912, transferred to and shall be discharged by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and it shall be also the duty of said Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to make such special investigation and report on particular subjects when required to do so by the President or either House of Congress.

Source credit: (Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407.)

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1912Enacted · Act of Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350 · 37 Stat. 407

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