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[CITE: 15USC176a]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 5--STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
 
Sec. 176a. Confidential nature of information furnished Bureau

    Any statistical information furnished in confidence to the Bureau of 
Foreign and Domestic Commerce by individuals, corporations, and firms 
shall be held to be confidential, and shall be used only for the 
statistical purposes for which it is supplied. The Director of the 
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall not permit anyone other 
than the sworn employees of the Bureau to examine such individual 
reports, nor shall he permit any statistics of domestic commerce to be 
published in such manner as to reveal the identity of the individual, 
corporation, or firm furnishing such data.

(Jan. 27, 1938, ch. 11, Sec. 1, 52 Stat. 8.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 
Commerce, see note set out under section 172 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 42 section 6274.
