---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 1626"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "1626"
heading: "Steel products trade enforcement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/1626"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Tariff Act of 1930"
  - "Subtitle III — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part V — Enforcement Provisions"
---

# §1626. Steel products trade enforcement

- (a) **Export validation requirement—** In order to monitor and enforce export measures required by a foreign government or customs union, pursuant to an international arrangement with the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), the [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) of the Treasury may, upon receipt of a request by the President of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) and by a foreign government or customs union, require the presentation of a valid export license or other documents issued by such foreign government or customs union as a condition for [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23) into the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) of steel mill products specified in the request. The [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) may provide by regulation for the terms and conditions under which such merchandise attempted to be entered without an accompanying valid export license or other documents may be denied [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23) into the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9).
- (b) **Period of applicability—** This section applies only to requests received by the [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) of the Treasury prior to January 1, 1983, and for the duration of the arrangements.

## Source credit

(June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 626, as added Pub. L. 96–276, § 153, Oct. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 1202.)