15 U.S.C. § 4002 — Definitions
submitted 44 years ago by Pub. L. 97-290 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 385 words · no verdicts yet
This section defines export trade, services, export-trade services, export trading company, State, United States, and antitrust laws for the subchapter. The Commerce Secretary may further define those terms by regulation.
(a) For this subchapter: (1) “Export trade” means trade or commerce in United States-produced goods or services that are exported or are being exported to another country. (2) “Services” includes accounting, amusement, architectural, automatic data processing, business, communications, construction franchising and licensing, consulting, engineering, financial, insurance, legal, management, repair, tourism, training, and transportation services, among others. (3) “Export trade services” includes consulting, international market research, advertising, marketing, insurance, product research and design, legal assistance, transportation including trade documents and freight forwarding, communications and processing foreign orders for exporters and foreign buyers, warehousing, foreign exchange, financing, and taking title to goods, when done to help export United States-produced goods or services. (4) “Export trading company” means a person, partnership, association, or similar organization, for-profit or nonprofit, doing business under United States or State law and principally organized and operated to (A) export United States-produced goods or services, or (B) help unaffiliated persons export them by providing one or more export-trade services. (5) “State” means the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. (6) “United States” has that same listed geographic meaning. (7) “Antitrust laws” means the antitrust laws defined in section 12(a), section 45 to the extent it concerns unfair competition methods, and any State antitrust or unfair-competition law.
(b) The Secretary of Commerce may further define any subsection (a) term by regulation to carry out this subchapter.
For purposes of this subchapter—
the term “export trade” means trade or commerce in goods or services produced in the United States which are exported, or in the course of being exported, from the United States to any other country;
the term “services” includes, but is not limited to, accounting, amusement, architectural, automatic data processing, business, communications, construction franchising and licensing, consulting, engineering, financial, insurance, legal, management, repair, tourism, training, and transportation services;
the term “export trade services” includes, but is not limited to, consulting, international market research, advertising, marketing, insurance, product research and design, legal assistance, transportation, including trade documentation and freight forwarding, communication and processing of foreign orders to and for exporters and foreign purchasers, warehousing, foreign exchange, financing, and taking title to goods, when provided in order to facilitate the export of goods or services produced in the United States;
the term “export trading company” means a person, partnership, association, or similar organization, whether operated for profit or as a nonprofit organization, which does business under the laws of the United States or any State and which is organized and operated principally for purposes of—
exporting goods or services produced in the United States; or
facilitating the exportation of goods or services produced in the United States by unaffiliated persons by providing one or more export trade services;
the term “State” means any of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands;
the term “United States” means the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and
the term “antitrust laws” means the antitrust laws as defined in section 12(a) of this title, section 45 of this title to the extent that section 45 of this title applies to unfair methods of competition, and any State antitrust or unfair competition law.
The Secretary of Commerce may by regulation further define any term defined in subsection (a), in order to carry out this subchapter.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 97–290, title I, § 103, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1234.)
- 1982Enacted · Pub. L. 97-290 · 96 Stat. 1234
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