---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 5873"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "5873"
heading: "Report to Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/5873"
units:
  - "Chapter 67 — Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support"
  - "Subchapter V — Space Trade and Cooperation"
---

# §5873. Report to Congress


Within one year after October 24, 1992, the President shall submit to the [designated congressional committees](/usc/22/5874.md?p=2) a report describing—

- (1) the opportunities for increased space-related trade with the independent states of the former Soviet Union;
- (2) a technology procurement plan for identifying and evaluating all unique space hardware, space technology, and space services available to the United States from the independent states;
- (3) specific space hardware, space technology, and space services that have been, or could be, the subject of discussions described in [section 5871(c) of this title](/usc/22/5871.md?p=c);
- (4) the trade missions carried out pursuant to [section 5872(a) of this title](/usc/22/5872.md?p=a), including the private participation in and the results of such missions;
- (5) any barriers, regulatory or practical, that inhibit space-related trade between the United States and independent states, including any such barriers in either the United States or the independent states; and
- (6) any anticompetitive issues raised during the course of negotiations, as observed pursuant to [section 5872(b) of this title](/usc/22/5872.md?p=b).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–511, title VI, § 603, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3347.)