---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 7257"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "7257"
heading: "Authority to assist in establishment and maintenance of one or more export trading companies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/7257"
units:
  - "Chapter 100 — Agricultural Market Transition"
  - "Subchapter IV — Other Commodities"
  - "Part A — Dairy"
---

# §7257. Authority to assist in establishment and maintenance of one or more export trading companies


The [Secretary](/usc/7/7202.md?p=13) of Agriculture shall, consistent with the obligations of the [United States](/usc/7/7202.md?p=15) as a member of the World Trade Organization, provide such advice and assistance to the [United States](/usc/7/7202.md?p=15) dairy industry as may be necessary to enable that industry to establish and maintain one or more export trading companies under the Export Trading Company Act of 1982 ([15 U.S.C. 4001](/usc/15/4001.md) et seq.) for the purpose of facilitating the international [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) development for and exportation of dairy products produced in the [United States](/usc/7/7202.md?p=15).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–127, title I, § 149, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 921.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Export Trading Company Act of 1982, referred to in text, is title I of Pub. L. 97–290, Oct. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 1233, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 4001 et seq.) of chapter 66 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4001 of Title 15 and Tables.