---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 4017"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "4017"
heading: "Guidelines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/4017"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Promotion of Export Trade"
  - "Subchapter II — Export Trade Certificates of Review"
---

# §4017. Guidelines

- (a) **Issuance; content—** To promote greater certainty regarding the application of the [antitrust laws](/usc/15/4021.md?p=6) to [export trade](/usc/15/4021.md?p=1), the [Secretary](/usc/15/4021.md?p=7), with the concurrence of the [Attorney General](/usc/15/4021.md?p=8), may issue guidelines—
  - (1) describing specific types of conduct with respect to which the [Secretary](/usc/15/4021.md?p=7), with the concurrence of the [Attorney General](/usc/15/4021.md?p=8), has made or would make, determinations under sections [4013](/usc/15/4013.md) and [4014](/usc/15/4014.md) of this title, and
  - (2) summarizing the factual and legal bases in support of the determinations.
- (b) **Administrative rulemaking requirements not applicable—** [Section 553 of title 5](/usc/5/553.md) shall not apply to the issuance of guidelines under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–290, title III, § 307, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1244.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 8, 1982, see section 312 of Pub. L. 97–290, set out as a note under section 4011 of this title.