---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 649d"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "649d"
heading: "Central information clearinghouse"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/649d"
units:
  - "Chapter 14A — Aid to Small Business"
---

# §649d. Central information clearinghouse


The Secretary through the International Trade [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1), shall, only to such extent and in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts on and after October 1, 1980, maintain a central clearinghouse to provide for the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information between programs established pursuant to sections [649a](/usc/15/649a.md) and [649b](/usc/15/649b.md) of this title, the Office of International Trade of the Small Business [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1), and other interested concerns.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–481, title III, § 304, Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2333.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Small Business Act which comprises this chapter.