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 .)