---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3553"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3553"
heading: "Membership in WTO of boycotting countries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3553"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Uruguay Round Trade Agreements"
  - "Subchapter I — Approval of, and General Provisions Relating to, Uruguay Round Agreements"
  - "Part D — Related Provisions"
---

# §3553. Membership in WTO of boycotting countries


It is the sense of the Congress that the [Trade Representative](/usc/19/3501.md?p=6) should vigorously oppose the admission into the [World Trade Organization](/usc/19/3501.md?p=8) of any [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) which, through its laws, regulations, official policies, or governmental practices, fosters, imposes, complies with, furthers, or supports any boycott described in [section 4607(a) of title 50](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t50/s4607/a)) (as in effect on August 20, 1994), including requiring or encouraging entities within that [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) to refuse to do business with [persons](/usc/19/1683.md?p=8) who do not comply with requests to take any action prohibited under that section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–465, title I, § 133, Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4839.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 4607(a) of title 50 (as in effect on August 20, 1994), referred to in text, means section 4607(a) of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to its repeal by Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title XVII, § 1766(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 2232.