19 U.S.C. § 181 — Exclusion of imports from countries making discriminations

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If the President finds that a foreign country is unfairly discriminating against U.S. products, the President may block imports from that country. The President must publicly announce the block and when it starts; after that, importing the named goods becomes illegal. The President can later change, cancel, or renew the block if the public interest requires it.

Whenever the President is satisfied that a foreign country is unjustly discriminating against the import or sale of U.S. products, the President may order that products from that country — whichever ones the President thinks proper — be barred from entering the United States. The President must then issue a proclamation announcing this decision and stating when the ban starts. After that date, importing the goods named in the proclamation becomes unlawful. The President may, at any time, revoke, change, end, or renew this order if the President believes the public interest requires it.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whenever the President shall be satisfied that unjust discriminations are made by or under the authority of any foreign state against the importation to or sale in such foreign state of any product of the United States, he may direct that such products of such foreign state so discriminating against any product of the United States as he may deem proper shall be excluded from importation to the United States; and in such case he shall make proclamation of his direction in the premises, and therein name the time when such direction against importation shall take effect, and after such date the importation of the articles named in such proclamation shall be unlawful. The President may at any time revoke, modify, terminate, or renew any such direction as, in his opinion, the public interest may require.

Source credit: (Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839, § 5, 26 Stat. 415.)

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1890Enacted · Act of Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 839 · 26 Stat. 415

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