---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 5872"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "5872"
heading: "Office of Space Commerce"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/5872"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support"
  - "Subchapter V — Space Trade and Cooperation"
---

# §5872. Office of Space Commerce

- (a) **Trade missions—** The [Office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) of Space Commerce of the Department of Commerce is authorized and encouraged to conduct one or more trade missions to appropriate [independent states of the former Soviet Union](/usc/22/5801.md) for the purpose of familiarizing [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) aerospace industry representatives with space hardware, space technologies, and space services that may be available from the [independent states](/usc/22/5801.md), and with the business practices and overall business climate in the [independent states](/usc/22/5801.md).
- (b) **Monitoring negotiations—** The [Office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) of Space Commerce—
  - (1) shall monitor the progress of any discussions described in [section 5871(c)(1) of this title](/usc/22/5871.md?p=c-1) that are being conducted; and
  - (2) shall advise the [Administrator](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=1) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as to the impact on [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) industry of each potential acquisition of space hardware, space technology, or space services from the [independent states of the former Soviet Union](/usc/22/5801.md), specifically including any anticompetitive issues the [Office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) may observe.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–511, title VI, § 602, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3347.)