15 U.S.C. § 182 — Statistics of manufactures

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The Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce must collect and organize statistics on U.S. manufacturing for Congress. This covers where factories are, their raw materials, markets, shipping, wages, and other conditions that affect their success.

The Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce must collect, sort, and organize statistics about U.S. manufacturing, for Congress's use. This includes where factories are located, their sources of raw material, their markets, their trade with producing regions, how their products are shipped, wages, and any other conditions that affect how well these manufacturers do.

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The Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall collect, digest, and arrange, for the use of Congress, the statistics of the manufactures of the United States, their localities, sources of raw material, markets, exchanges with the producing regions of the country, transportation of products, wages, and such other conditions as are found to affect their prosperity.

Source credit: (R.S. § 342; Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350, § 1, 37 Stat. 407; Mar. 1, 1919, ch. 86, 40 Stat. 1256.)

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1912Enacted · Act of Aug. 23, 1912, ch. 350 · 37 Stat. 407
1919Amended · Act of Mar. 1, 1919, ch. 86 · 40 Stat. 1256

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