19 U.S.C. § 3001
Purposes
The purposes of this chapter are—
(1)
to approve the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System;
(2)
to implement in United States law the nomenclature established internationally by the Convention; and
(3)
to provide that the Convention shall be treated as a trade agreement obligation of the United States.
( Pub. L. 100–418, title I, § 1201 , Aug. 23, 1988 , 102 Stat. 1147 .)