                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 12--TRADE ACT OF 1974
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--NEGOTIATING AND OTHER AUTHORITY
 
             Part 1--Rates of Duty and Other Trade Barriers
 
Sec. 2114b. Provisions relating to international trade in 
        services
        
    (1) The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a service industries 
development program designed to--
        (A) develop, in consultation with other Federal agencies as 
    appropriate, policies regarding services that are designed to 
    increase the competitiveness of United States service industries in 
    foreign commerce;
        (B) develop a data base for assessing the adequacy of Government 
    policies and actions pertaining to services, including, but not 
    limited to, data on trade, both aggregate and pertaining to 
    individual service industries;
        (C) collect and analyze, in consultation with appropriate 
    agencies, information pertaining to the international operations and 
    competitiveness of United States service industries, including 
    information with respect to--
            (i) policies of foreign governments toward foreign and 
        United States service industries;
            (ii) Federal, State, and local regulation of both foreign 
        and United States suppliers of services, and the effect of such 
        regulation on trade;
            (iii) the adequacy of current United States policies to 
        strengthen the competitiveness of United States service 
        industries in foreign commerce, including export promotion 
        activities in the service sector;
            (iv) tax treatment of services, with particular emphasis on 
        the effect of United States taxation on the international 
        competitiveness of United States firms and exports;
            (v) treatment of services under international agreements of 
        the United States;
            (vi) antitrust policies as such policies affect the 
        competitiveness of United States firms; and
            (vii) treatment of services in international agreements of 
        the United States;

        (D) conduct a program of research and analysis of service-
    related issues and problems, including forecasts and industrial 
    strategies; and
        (E) conduct sectoral studies of domestic service industries.

    (2) For purposes of the collection and analysis required by 
paragraph (1), and for the purpose of any reporting the Department of 
Commerce makes under paragraph (3), such collection and reporting shall 
distinguish between income from investment and income from noninvestment 
services.
    (3) On not less than a biennial basis beginning in 1986, the 
Secretary shall prepare a report which analyzes the information 
collected under paragraph (1). Such report shall be submitted to the 
Congress and to the President by not later than the date that is 120 
days after the close of the period covered by the report.
    (4) The Secretary of Commerce shall carry out the provisions of this 
subsection from funds otherwise made available to him which may be used 
for such purposes.
    (5) For purposes of this section, the term ``services'' means 
economic activities whose outputs are other than tangible goods. Such 
term includes, but is not limited to, banking, insurance, 
transportation, postal and delivery services, communications and data 
processing, retail and wholesale trade, advertising, accounting, 
construction, design and engineering, management consulting, real 
estate, professional services, entertainment, education, health care, 
and tourism.

(Pub. L. 98-573, title III, Sec. 306(a), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3008; 
Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(h) [title VI, Sec. 633(c)], Oct. 21, 
1998, 112 Stat. 2681-480, 2681-524.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the International Trade and 
Investment Act, and also as part of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984, 
and not as part of the Trade Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.
    Section is comprised of subsec. (a) of section 306 of Pub. L. 98-
573. Subsec. (b) of such section amended sections 3101, 3103, and 3104 
of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse, and enacted a provision 
set out as a note under section 3101 of Title 22, subsec. (c)(1), (2)(A) 
of such section is classified to section 2114c of this title, and 
subsec. (c)(2)(B), (C) of such section amended sections 2114, 2155, 
2413, and 2414 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1998--Par. (5). Pub. L. 105-277, which directed the amendment of 
par. (5) by inserting ``postal and delivery services,'' after 
``transportation.'' in second sentence, was executed by making the 
insertion after ``transportation,'' to reflect the probable intent of 
Congress.
