---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2113"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2113"
heading: "Overall negotiating objective"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2113"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974"
  - "Subchapter I — Negotiating and Other Authority"
  - "Part 1"
---

# §2113. Overall negotiating objective


The overall [United States](/usc/19/2319.md?p=8) negotiating [objective](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=3) under sections [2111](/usc/19/2111.md) and [2112](/usc/19/2112.md) of this title shall be to obtain more open and equitable market access and the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of devices which distort trade or [commerce](/usc/19/2481.md?p=10). To the maximum extent feasible, the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of agricultural trade barriers and distortions shall be undertaken in conjunction with the harmonization, reduction, or elimination of industrial trade barriers and distortions.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 103, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1984.)