---
kind: "unit"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
key: "ptI/ch90"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 90"
heading: "Protection of Trade Secrets"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/ptI-ch90"
sections_count: 9
---

# Chapter 90 — Protection of Trade Secrets

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure › Part I — Crimes

## Sections

- [§1831. Economic espionage](/usc/18/1831.md)
- [§1832. Theft of trade secrets](/usc/18/1832.md)
- [§1833. Exceptions to prohibitions](/usc/18/1833.md)
- [§1834. Criminal forfeiture](/usc/18/1834.md)
- [§1835. Orders to preserve confidentiality](/usc/18/1835.md)
- [§1836. Civil proceedings](/usc/18/1836.md)
- [§1837. Applicability to conduct outside the United States](/usc/18/1837.md)
- [§1838. Construction with other laws](/usc/18/1838.md)
- [§1839. Definitions](/usc/18/1839.md)