---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 1323"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "1323"
heading: "Conservation of fishery resources"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/1323"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Tariff Act of 1930"
  - "Subtitle II — Special Provisions"
  - "Part I — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1323. Conservation of fishery resources


Upon the convocation of a conference on the use or conservation of international fishery resources, the President shall, by all appropriate means at his disposal, seek to persuade [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) whose domestic fishing practices or policies affect such resources, to engage in negotiations in good faith relating to the use or conservation of such resources. If, after such efforts by the President and by other [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) which have agreed to engage in such negotiations, any other [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) whose conservation practices or policies affect the interests of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) and such other [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3), has, in the judgment of the President, failed or refused to engage in such negotiations in good faith, the President may, if he is satisfied that such action is likely to be effective in inducing such [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) to engage in such negotiations in good faith, increase the rate of duty on any fish (in any form) which is the product of such [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3), for such time as he deems necessary, to a rate not more than 50 percent above the rate existing on July 1, 1934.


## Source credit

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title III, § 323, as added Pub. L. 87–794, title II, § 257(i), Oct. 11, 1962, 76 Stat. 883.)