                        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. 2118. Access to supplies


(a) Fair and equitable access

    A principal United States negotiating objective under section 2112 
of this title shall be to enter into trade agreements with foreign 
countries and instrumentalities to assure the United States of fair and 
equitable access at reasonable prices to supplies of articles of 
commerce which are important to the economic requirements of the United 
States and for which the United States does not have, or cannot easily 
develop, the necessary domestic productive capacity to supply its own 
requirements.

(b) Continued availability; reciprocal concessions; comparable trade 
        obligations

    Any agreement entered into under section 2112 of this title may 
include provisions which--
        (1) assure to the United States the continued availability of 
    important articles at reasonable prices, and
        (2) provide reciprocal concessions or comparable trade 
    obligations, or both, by the United States.

(Pub. L. 93-618, title I, Sec. 108, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1985.)
