Federal · Title 19 — Customs Duties
19 U.S.C. § 1801: Statement of purposes
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to stimulate the economic growth of the United States and maintain and enlarge foreign markets for the products of United States agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce; to strengthen economic relations with foreign countries through the development of open and nondiscriminatory trading in the free world; and to prevent Communist economic penetration.
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