---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1837"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1837"
heading: "Applicability to conduct outside the United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1837"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 90 — Protection of Trade Secrets"
---

# §1837. Applicability to conduct outside the United States


This chapter also applies to conduct occurring outside the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) if—

- (1) the offender is a natural [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) who is a citizen or permanent resident [alien](/usc/18/841.md?p=r) of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), or an [organization](/usc/18/2256.md?p=4) organized under the laws of the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) or a [State](/usc/18/31.md?p=a-9) or political subdivision thereof; or
- (2) an act in furtherance of the offense was committed in the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–294, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3490.)