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[CITE: 22USC2686]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 38--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
Sec. 2686. Review of world-wide supply, demand, and price of 
        basic raw and processed materials
        
    It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should, 
and he is authorized to, establish within the Department of State a 
bureau which shall be responsible for continuously reviewing (1) the 
supply, demand, and price, throughout the world, of basic raw and 
processed materials (including agricultural commodities), and (2) the 
effect of United States Government programs and policies (including tax 
policy) in creating or alleviating, or assisting in creating or 
alleviating, shortages of such materials. In conducting such review, the 
bureau should obtain information with respect to--
        (A) the supply, demand, and price of each such material in each 
    major importing, exporting, and producing country and region of the 
    world in order to understand long-term and short-term trends in the 
    supply, demand, and price of such materials;
        (B) projected imports and exports of such materials on a 
    country-by-country basis;
        (C) unusual patterns or changes in connection with the purchase 
    or sale of such materials;
        (D) a list of such materials in short supply and an estimate of 
    the amount of shortage;
        (E) international geological, geophysical, and political 
    conditions which may affect the supply of such materials; and
        (F) other matters that the Secretary considers appropriate in 
    carrying out this section.

(Pub. L. 93-475, Sec. 14, Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1443.)
