---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3702"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3702"
heading: "Statement of policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3702"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Extension of Certain Trade Benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa"
  - "Subchapter I — Trade Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa"
---

# §3702. Statement of policy


Congress supports—

- (1) encouraging increased trade and investment between the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) and sub-Saharan Africa;
- (2) reducing tariff and nontariff barriers and other obstacles to sub-Saharan African and [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) trade;
- (3) expanding [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) assistance to sub-Saharan Africa’s regional integration efforts;
- (4) negotiating reciprocal and mutually beneficial trade agreements, including the possibility of establishing free trade areas that serve the interests of both the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) and the [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) of sub-Saharan Africa;
- (5) focusing on [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) committed to the rule of law, economic reform, and the eradication of poverty;
- (6) strengthening and expanding the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa, especially enterprises owned by women and small businesses;
- (7) facilitating the development of civil societies and political freedom in sub-Saharan Africa;
- (8) establishing a [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9)-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum;
- (9) the accession of the [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) in sub-Saharan Africa to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; and
- (10) promoting the role of women in social, political, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–200, title I, § 103, May 18, 2000, 114 Stat. 253; Pub. L. 114–27, title I, § 106(a), June 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 368.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2015—Par. (10). Pub. L. 114–27 added par. (10).