---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 7904"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "7904"
heading: "Trade-related barriers to export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/7904"
units:
  - "Chapter 86 — Climate Change Technology Deployment in Developing Countries"
---

# §7904. Trade-related barriers to export of greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 1 year after August 8, 2005, the United States Trade Representative shall (as appropriate and consistent with applicable bilateral, regional, and mutual trade agreements)—
  - (1) identify trade-relations barriers maintained by [foreign countries](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) to the export of [greenhouse gas intensity](/usc/22/7901.md?p=3) reducing technologies and practices from the United States to the developing countries identified in the report submitted under [section 7902(a)(2)(A) of this title](/usc/22/7902.md?p=a-2-A); and
  - (2) negotiate with [foreign countries](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) for the removal of those barriers.
- (b) **Annual report—** Not later than 1 year after the date on which a report is submitted under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) and annually thereafter, the United States Trade Representative shall submit to Congress a report that describes any progress made with respect to removing the barriers identified by the United States Trade Representative under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–240, title VII, § 734, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XVI, § 1611, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1115.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2005, except as otherwise provided, see section 739 of Pub. L. 101–240, set out as a note under section 7901 of this title.