---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2576a"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2576a"
heading: "Inquiry point"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2576a"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Trade Agreements Act of 1979"
  - "Subchapter II — Technical Barriers to Trade (standards)"
  - "Part E — Standards and Measures Under the North American Free Trade Agreement"
  - "Subpart 2 — standards-related measures"
---

# §2576a. Inquiry point


The [standards](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=5) information center maintained under [section 2544 of this title](/usc/19/2544.md) shall, in addition to the functions specified therein, make available to the public relevant documents, at such reasonable fees as the [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) of Commerce may prescribe, and information regarding—

- (1) the membership and participation of the Federal Government, [State](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2) governments, and relevant nongovernmental bodies in the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) in international and regional standardizing bodies and conformity assessment systems, and in bilateral and multilateral arrangements regarding [standards-related measures](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=6), and the provisions of those systems and arrangements;
- (2) the location of notices of the type required under article 909 of the [NAFTA](/usc/19/2577.md?p=1), or where the information contained in such notice can be obtained; and
- (3) the Federal [agency](/usc/19/2578b.md?p=a-1) procedures for assessment of risk, and factors the [agency](/usc/19/2578b.md?p=a-1) considers in conducting the assessment and establishing the levels of protection that the [agency](/usc/19/2578b.md?p=a-1) considers appropriate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 472, as added Pub. L. 103–182, title III, § 351(a), Dec. 8, 1993, 107 Stat. 2120.)