United States Code Title 19 — Customs Duties

§ 3001. Purposes

§ 3001.

Purposes

The purposes of this chapter are—

(1)

to approve the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;

(2)

to implement in United States law the nomenclature established internationally by the Convention; and

(3)

to provide that the Convention shall be treated as a trade agreement obligation of the United States.