---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4207"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4207"
heading: "Sovereignty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4207"
units:
  - "Chapter 27 — Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability"
---

# §4207. Sovereignty

- (a) **United States law to prevail in event of conflict—** No provision of any trade agreement entered into under [section 4202(b) of this title](/usc/19/4202.md?p=b), nor the application of any such provision to any [person](/usc/19/1683.md?p=8) or circumstance, that is inconsistent with any law of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), any [State](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2) of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), or any locality of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) shall have effect.
- (b) **Amendments or modifications of United States law—** No provision of any trade agreement entered into under [section 4202(b) of this title](/usc/19/4202.md?p=b) shall prevent the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), any [State](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2) of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), or any locality of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) from amending or modifying any law of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), that [State](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2), or that locality (as the case may be).
- (c) **Dispute settlement reports—** Reports, including findings and recommendations, issued by dispute settlement panels convened pursuant to any trade agreement entered into under [section 4202(b) of this title](/usc/19/4202.md?p=b) shall have no binding effect on the law of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), the Government of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9), or the law or government of any [State](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2) or locality of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–26, title I, § 108, June 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 356.)