---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 101.2"
title: "22"
number: "101.2"
heading: "Promotion of American interests."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/101.2"
---

# §101.2. Promotion of American interests.


Officers of the Foreign Service shall further the agricultural and commercial interests of the United States:

- (a) By carefully studying and reporting on the potentialities of their districts as a market for American products or as a competitor of American products in international trade.
- (b) By investigating and submitting World Trade Directory Reports on the general standing and distributing capacity of foreign firms within their districts.
- (c) **By preparing and submitting upon request trade lists of commercial firms within their districts.**
- (d) By keeping constantly on the alert for and submitting immediate reports on concrete trade opportunities.
- (e) By endeavoring to create, within the scope of the duties to which they are assigned, a demand for American products within their districts.
- (f) **By facilitating and reporting on proposed visits of alien businessmen to the United States.**
- (g) By taking appropriate steps to facilitate the promotion of such import trade into the United States as the economic interests of the United States may require.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 302, 60 Stat. 1001; 22 U.S.C. 842.

### Source

Source: 22 FR 10871, Dec. 27, 1957, unless otherwise noted.