U.S Code last checked for updates: May 18, 2024
§ 17333.
United States trade missions to encourage private sector trade and investment
(a)
Assistance authorized
The Secretary of Commerce shall direct the International Trade Administration to expand or create trade missions to and from the United States to encourage private sector trade and investment in clean and efficient energy technologies—
(1)
by organizing and facilitating trade missions to foreign countries and by matching United States private sector companies with opportunities in foreign markets so that clean and efficient energy technologies can help to combat increases in global greenhouse gas emissions; and
(2)
by creating reverse trade missions in which the Department of Commerce facilitates the meeting of foreign private and public sector organizations with private sector companies in the United States for the purpose of showcasing clean and efficient energy technologies in use or in development that could be exported to other countries.
(b)
Report
(c)
Authorization of appropriations
(Pub. L. 110–140, title IX, § 913, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1726.)
cite as: 42 USC 17333