---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3812"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3812"
heading: "Interests of small business"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3812"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority"
---

# §3812. Interests of small business


The Assistant [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) [Trade Representative](/usc/19/1677.md?p=32) for [Industry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=4-A) and Telecommunications shall be responsible for ensuring that the interests of small business are considered in all trade negotiations in accordance with the [objective](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=3) described in [section 3802(a)(8) of this title](/usc/19/3802.md?p=a-8). It is the sense of the Congress that the small business functions should be reflected in the title of the Assistant [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) [Trade Representative](/usc/19/1677.md?p=32) assigned the responsibility for small business.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–210, div. B, title XXI, § 2112, Aug. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 1021.)