§ 2686. — Review of worldwide supply, demand, and price of basic raw and processed materials.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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.)
