---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 4907"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "4907"
heading: "Operation of Data Bank"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/4907"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — National Trade Data Bank"
---

# §4907. Operation of Data Bank


The [Secretary](/usc/15/4901.md?p=6) shall manage the [Data Bank](/usc/15/4901.md?p=2) to provide the most appropriate data retrieval system or systems possible. Such system or systems shall—

- (1) be designed to utilize data processing and retrieval technology in monitoring, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating the data and information contained in the [Data Bank](/usc/15/4901.md?p=2);
- (2) use the most effective and meaningful means of organizing and making such information available to—
  - (A) United States Government policymakers;
  - (B) United States business firms;
  - (C) United States workers;
  - (D) United States industry associations;
  - (E) United States agricultural interests;
  - (F) [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) and local economic development agencies; and
  - (G) other interested United States [persons](/usc/15/7a.md?p=6) who could benefit from such information;
- (3) be of such quality and timeliness and in such form as to assist coordinated trade strategies for the United States; and
- (4) facilitate dissemination of information through nonprofit organizations with significant outreach programs which complement the regional outreach programs of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–418, title V, § 5407, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1466.)