---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1536"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1536"
heading: "Prohibition against fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1536"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Department of Commerce"
---

# §1536. Prohibition against fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels


If it has been finally determined by a court or a Federal agency that any [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) intentionally affixed a label bearing a “Made in America” inscription, or an inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, that [person](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract from the Department of Commerce, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures in subpart 9.4 of [chapter 1](/usc/48/chch1.md) of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–245, title I, § 111(b), Feb. 14, 1992, 106 Stat. 14.)