---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2232"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2232"
heading: "Independent budget and authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2232"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974"
  - "Subchapter I — Negotiating and Other Authority"
  - "Part 7 — United States International Trade Commission"
---

# §2232. Independent budget and authorization of appropriations


Effective with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1976, for purposes of [chapter 11](/usc/31/chstII/ch11.md) of title 31, estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations for the [United States](/usc/19/2319.md?p=8) International Trade [Commission](/usc/19/1677.md?p=2) shall be transmitted to the President on or before October 15 of the year preceding the beginning of each fiscal year and shall be included by him in the Budget without revision, and the [Commission](/usc/19/1677.md?p=2) shall not be considered to be a department or establishment for purposes of such chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–618, title I, § 175(a)(1), Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2011.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Chapter 11 of title 31” and “such chapter” substituted in text for “the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (31 U.S.C. 1 et seq.)” and “such Act”, respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.