---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2403"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2403"
heading: "Congressional declaration of policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2403"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — National Productivity and Quality of Working Life"
  - "Subchapter I — Findings, Purpose, and Policy; Definitions"
---

# §2403. Congressional declaration of policy

- (a) **Stimulation of high rate of productivity growth—** The Congress, recognizing the profound impact of productivity on the interrelations of all components of the national economy, declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) and [local governments](/usc/15/34.md?p=1), to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, to stimulate a high rate of [productivity growth](/usc/15/2404.md?p=3).
- (b) **Improvement and coordination of Federal plans to carry out policy—** It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to carry out the policy set forth in this chapter.
- (c) **Interpretation of laws, rules, etc., to carry out policy—** The laws, rules, regulations, and policies of the United States shall be so interpreted as to give full force and effect to this policy.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–136, title I, § 103, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 734.)