---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 5604"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "5604"
heading: "Preservation of traditional markets"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/5604"
units:
  - "Chapter 87 — Export Promotion"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §5604. Preservation of traditional markets


The [Secretary](/usc/7/5602.md?p=3) shall, in implementing programs of the Department of Agriculture intended to encourage or assist exports of [agricultural commodities](/usc/7/5602.md?p=1), seek to preserve traditional [markets](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) for [United States agricultural commodities](/usc/7/5602.md?p=7).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–501, title I, § 104, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, § 1531, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3672.)