---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 188"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "188"
heading: "Publication of commercial information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/188"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Statistical and Commercial Information"
---

# §188. Publication of commercial information


The Secretary of Commerce shall publish official notifications, from time to time, of such commercial information communicated to him by diplomatic and consular officers, as he may deem important to the public interests, in such newspapers, not to exceed three in number, as he may select.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 211; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 10, 32 Stat. 829; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 211 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, § 2, 11 Stat. 60.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act Mar. 4, 1913, substituted “Secretary of Commerce” for “Secretary of Commerce and Labor”.

### Transfer of Functions

Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred Bureau of Statistics from Treasury Department to Department of Commerce and Labor.