                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                      CHAPTER 12--TRADE ACT OF 1974
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--NEGOTIATING AND OTHER AUTHORITY
 
                         Part 2--Other Authority
 
Sec. 2136. Reciprocal nondiscriminatory treatment


(a) Direct and indirect imports

    Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in any other 
provision of law, any duty or other import restriction or duty-free 
treatment proclaimed in carrying out any trade agreement under this 
subchapter shall apply to products of all foreign countries, whether 
imported directly or indirectly.

(b) Presidential determination of whether major industrial countries 
        have made substantially equivalent concessions to the United 
        States

    The President shall determine, after the conclusion of all 
negotiations entered into under this chapter or at the end of the 5-year 
period beginning on January 3, 1975, whichever is earlier, whether any 
major industrial country has failed to make concessions under trade 
agreements entered into under this chapter which provide competitive 
opportunities for the commerce of the United States in such country 
substantially equivalent to the competitive opportunities, provided by 
concessions made by the United States under trade agreements entered 
into under this chapter, for the commerce of such country in the United 
States.

(c) Major industrial countries

    For purposes of this section, ``major industrial country'' means 
Canada, the European Economic Community, the individual member countries 
of such Community, Japan, and any other foreign country designated by 
the President for purposes of this subsection.

(Pub. L. 93-618, title I, Sec. 126, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1992; Pub. L. 
105-362, title XIV, Sec. 1401(b)(1), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3294.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the 
original ``this Act'', meaning Pub. L. 93-618, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 
1978, as amended, which is classified principally to this chapter. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text 
note set out under section 2101 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 105-362 redesignated subsec. (d) as 
(c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which related to recommendations 
to Congress for legislation following a Presidential determination that 
a major industrial country failed to grant equivalent concessions.


                      Transactions Involving Libya

    This section to have no effect with respect to Libya in view of 
prohibition of import into United States of any goods or services of 
Libyan origin other than publications and materials imported for news 
publications or broadcast dissemination, see Ex. Ord. No. 12543, Jan. 7, 
1986, 51 F.R. 875, set out under section 1701 of Title 50, War and 
National Defense.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2254, 2503, 2518, 2904 of 
this title.
