---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 620j"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "620j"
heading: "Authority of Export Administration Act of 1979"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/620j"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations"
---

# §620j. Authority of Export Administration Act of 1979


Nothing in sections [620](/usc/16/620.md) to 620j of this title shall be construed to—

- (1) prejudice the outcome of pending or prospective petitions filed under, or
- (2) warrant the exercise of the authority contained in,

[section 7](/usc/16/7.md)[^1] of the Export Administration Act of 1979 with respect to the export of [unprocessed timber](/usc/16/620e.md?p=9-A).


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–382, title IV, § 499, Aug. 20, 1990, 104 Stat. 726.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 7 of the Export Administration Act of 1979, referred to in text, is section 7 of Pub. L. 96–72, Sept. 29, 1979, 93 Stat. 515, which was classified to section 4606 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title XVII, § 1766(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 2232.