---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 107"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "107"
heading: "Exclusive economic zone"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/107"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 1 — Definitions"
---

# §107. Exclusive economic zone


In this title, the term “exclusive economic zone” means the zone established by Presidential Proclamation 5030 of March 10, 1983 ([16 U.S.C. 1453](/usc/16/1453.md) note).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–304, § 4, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1487.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 107 | 46:2101(10a). |  |