---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 1001"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "1001"
heading: "Designation of liaison office of Department of State"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/1001"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Security and Accountability for Every Port"
  - "Subchapter III — Administration"
---

# §1001. Designation of liaison office of Department of State


The Secretary of State shall designate a liaison office within the Department of State to assist the [Secretary](/usc/6/901.md?p=15), as appropriate, in negotiating cargo security-related international agreements.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–347, title III, § 301(b), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1920.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Rule of Construction

Nothing in this section to be construed to affect the authorities, functions, or capabilities of the Coast Guard to perform its missions or the requirement under section 468 of this title that those authorities, functions, and capabilities be maintained intact, see section 301(c) of Pub. L. 109–347, set out as a note under section 239 of this title.