---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2116"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2116"
heading: "Agreements with developing countries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2116"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974"
  - "Subchapter I — Negotiating and Other Authority"
  - "Part 1"
---

# §2116. Agreements with developing countries


A [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 enter into trade agreements which promote the economic growth of both [developing countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=36-A) and the [United States](/usc/19/2319.md?p=8) and the mutual expansion of market opportunities.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 106, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1985.)