---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17333"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17333"
heading: "United States trade missions to encourage private sector trade and investment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17333"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter VIII — International Energy Programs"
  - "Part A — Assistance To Promote Clean and Efficient Energy Technologies in Foreign Countries"
---

# §17333. United States trade missions to encourage private sector trade and investment

- (a) **Assistance authorized—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) of Commerce shall direct the International Trade Administration to expand or create trade missions to and from the United States to encourage private sector trade and investment in [clean and efficient energy technologies](/usc/42/17321.md?p=2)—
  - (1) by organizing and facilitating trade missions to foreign countries and by matching United States private sector companies with opportunities in foreign markets so that [clean and efficient energy technologies](/usc/42/17321.md?p=2) can help to combat increases in global [greenhouse gas](/usc/42/17321.md?p=3) emissions; and
  - (2) by creating reverse trade missions in which the [Department](/usc/42/17001.md?p=1) of Commerce facilitates the meeting of foreign private and public sector organizations with private sector companies in the United States for the purpose of showcasing [clean and efficient energy technologies](/usc/42/17321.md?p=2) in use or in development that could be exported to other countries.
- (b) **Report—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) of Commerce shall submit to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/42/17321.md?p=1) an annual report on the implementation of this section for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/42/17001.md?p=3) of Commerce such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title IX, § 913, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1726.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.