---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2466"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2466"
heading: "Agricultural exports of beneficiary developing countries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2466"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974"
  - "Subchapter V — Generalized System of Preferences"
---

# §2466. Agricultural exports of beneficiary developing countries


The appropriate agencies of the [United States](/usc/19/2319.md?p=8) shall assist [beneficiary developing countries](/usc/19/2467.md?p=1) to develop and implement measures designed to assure that the agricultural sectors of their economies are not directed to export markets to the detriment of the production of foodstuffs for their citizenry.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–618, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 104–188, title I, § 1952(a), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1925.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2466, Pub. L. 93–618, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 98–573, title V, § 507(a), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3023, related to agricultural exports of beneficiary developing countries, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 104–188.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable to articles entered on or after Oct. 1, 1996, with provisions relating to retroactive application, see section 1953 of Pub. L. 104–188, set out as a note under section 2461 of this title.