---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2805"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2805"
heading: "Required consultations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2805"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Wine Trade"
---

# §2805. Required consultations


The [Trade Representative](/usc/19/2802.md?p=5) shall consult with the [Committees](/usc/19/2802.md?p=1) and with representatives of the [wine](/usc/19/2802.md?p=7) and [grape products](/usc/19/2802.md?p=2) [industries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=4-A) in the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9)—

- (1) before identifying tariff barriers and nontariff barriers to (or other distortions of) trade in [United States wine](/usc/19/2802.md?p=6) and designating [major wine trading countries](/usc/19/2802.md?p=3) under [section 2803 of this title](/usc/19/2803.md);
- (2) in developing the reports required under [section 2804(b) of this title](/usc/19/2804.md?p=b); and
- (3) for purposes of determining whether action by the President is appropriate under any provision of the Trade Act of 1974 [[19 U.S.C. 2101](/usc/19/2101.md) et seq.] with respect to any act, policy, or practice referred to in [section 2804(b)(1) of this title](/usc/19/2804.md?p=b-1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–573, title IX, § 906, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3050.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Trade Act of 1974, referred to in par. (3), is Pub. L. 93–618, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 1978, which is classified principally to chapter 12 (§ 2101 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 2101 of this title and Tables.