---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7643"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7643"
heading: "Engagement of United States diplomatic missions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7643"
units:
  - "Chapter 95 — Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking"
  - "Subchapter IV — Programs to Address the Escalating Wildlife Trafficking Crisis"
---

# §7643. Engagement of United States diplomatic missions


As soon as practicable but not later than 2 years after October 7, 2016, each chief of mission to a [focus country](/usc/16/7601.md?p=5) should begin to implement the recommendations contained in the strategic plan required under [section 7631(a)(2) of this title](/usc/16/7631.md?p=a-2), among other goals, for the country.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–231, title IV, § 403, Oct. 7, 2016, 130 Stat. 955.)