---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2485"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2485"
heading: "Voluntary limitations on exports of steel to United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2485"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Trade Act of 1974"
  - "Subchapter VI — General Provisions"
---

# §2485. Voluntary limitations on exports of steel to United States


No [person](/usc/19/2401.md?p=2) shall be liable for damages, penalties, or other sanctions under the Federal Trade Commission Act [[15 U.S.C. 41](/usc/15/41.md) et seq.] or the Antitrust Acts (as defined in section 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act [[15 U.S.C. 44](/usc/15/44.md)]), or under any similar [State law](/usc/19/2319.md?p=10), on account of his negotiating, entering into, participating in, or implementing an arrangement providing for the voluntary limitation on exports of steel and steel products to the [United States](/usc/19/2319.md?p=8), or any [modification](/usc/19/2481.md?p=6) or renewal of such an arrangement, if such arrangement or such [modification](/usc/19/2481.md?p=6) or renewal—

- (1) was undertaken prior to January 3, 1975, at the request of the Secretary of State or his delegate, and
- (2) ceases to be effective not later than January 1, 1975.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–618, title VI, § 607, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2073.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in text, is act Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 41 et seq.) of chapter 2 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of Title 15 and Tables.