---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3702"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3702"
heading: "Statement of policy"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3702"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Extension of Certain Trade Benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa"
  - "Subchapter I — Trade Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa"
---

# §3702. Statement of policy


Congress supports—

- (1) encouraging increased trade and investment between the United States and [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md);
- (2) reducing tariff and nontariff barriers and other obstacles to sub-Saharan African and United States trade;
- (3) expanding United States assistance to [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md)’s regional integration efforts;
- (4) negotiating reciprocal and mutually beneficial [trade agreements](/usc/19/2504.md?p=c-4-A), including the possibility of establishing free trade areas that serve the interests of both the United States and the countries of [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md);
- (5) focusing on countries committed to the rule of law, economic reform, and the eradication of poverty;
- (6) strengthening and expanding the private sector in [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md), especially enterprises owned by women and small businesses;
- (7) facilitating the development of civil societies and political freedom in [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md);
- (8) establishing a United States-[Sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md) Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum;
- (9) the accession of the [countries in sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md) to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; and
- (10) promoting the role of women in social, political, and economic development in [sub-Saharan Africa](/usc/19/3706.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–200, title I, § 103, May 18, 2000, 114 Stat. 253; Pub. L. 114–27, title I, § 106(a), June 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 368.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2015—Par. (10). Pub. L. 114–27 added par. (10).