Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930
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Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 is a key U.S. trade law provision that allows the government to investigate and block unfair trade practices involving imported goods, including intellectual property infringement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3344044 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 Context triple: [United States International Trade Commission, legalAuthority, Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930]
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A.
Article III of GATT 1994
Article III of GATT 1994 is a core provision of the WTO legal framework that establishes the national treatment obligation, requiring WTO members to treat imported products no less favorably than like domestic products in respect of internal taxation and regulation.
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B.
Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the GATT provision that establishes the fundamental rules for determining the customs value of imported goods in international trade.
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C.
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Code
The Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Code was a multilateral trade agreement under the GATT that set rules for the use of government subsidies and the application of countervailing duties to offset them.
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D.
GATT Article XIX
GATT Article XIX is the safeguard provision in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that allows countries to temporarily restrict imports to protect domestic industries from serious injury caused by sudden import surges.
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E.
Trade Act of 1974
The Trade Act of 1974 is a landmark U.S. law that reshaped American trade policy by granting the president broad negotiating authority, establishing fast-track procedures for trade agreements, and linking trade benefits to human rights and other policy objectives.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 Target entity description: Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 is a key U.S. trade law provision that allows the government to investigate and block unfair trade practices involving imported goods, including intellectual property infringement.
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A.
Article III of GATT 1994
Article III of GATT 1994 is a core provision of the WTO legal framework that establishes the national treatment obligation, requiring WTO members to treat imported products no less favorably than like domestic products in respect of internal taxation and regulation.
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B.
Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the GATT provision that establishes the fundamental rules for determining the customs value of imported goods in international trade.
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C.
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Code
The Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Code was a multilateral trade agreement under the GATT that set rules for the use of government subsidies and the application of countervailing duties to offset them.
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D.
GATT Article XIX
GATT Article XIX is the safeguard provision in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that allows countries to temporarily restrict imports to protect domestic industries from serious injury caused by sudden import surges.
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E.
Trade Act of 1974
The Trade Act of 1974 is a landmark U.S. law that reshaped American trade policy by granting the president broad negotiating authority, establishing fast-track procedures for trade agreements, and linking trade benefits to human rights and other policy objectives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. federal statute provision
ⓘ
trade law provision ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Section 337
ⓘ
§337 ⓘ |
| adjudicator | administrative law judge of the U.S. International Trade Commission ⓘ |
| amendedBy |
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988
ⓘ
Trade Act of 1974 ⓘ |
| appealsTo | United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
threat of unfair acts in the importation of articles
ⓘ
unfair acts in the importation of articles ⓘ |
| authorizes |
cease and desist orders against unfair trade practices
ⓘ
exclusion orders against infringing imported products ⓘ investigations by the U.S. International Trade Commission ⓘ |
| characteristic |
does not provide for monetary damages
ⓘ
provides primarily injunctive-style remedies ⓘ |
| codifiedAt | 19 U.S.C. § 1337 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| covers |
copyright infringement involving imported goods
ⓘ
other unfair methods of competition in import trade ⓘ patent infringement involving imported goods ⓘ trade secret misappropriation involving imported goods ⓘ trademark infringement involving imported goods ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
antidumping laws
ⓘ
countervailing duty laws ⓘ |
| domesticIndustryRequirement |
significant employment of labor or capital
ⓘ
significant investment in plant and equipment ⓘ substantial investment in exploitation of the intellectual property ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
International Trade Commission
ⓘ
surface form:
United States International Trade Commission
|
| enforcementMechanism | U.S. Customs and Border Protection enforcement of exclusion orders ⓘ |
| goal |
prevent unfair competition from imported products
ⓘ
protect U.S. intellectual property rights against infringing imports ⓘ |
| legalDomain |
intellectual property law
ⓘ
international trade law ⓘ |
| legalEffect |
can bar entry of infringing goods into the United States
ⓘ
can impose cease and desist obligations on respondents ⓘ |
| partOf |
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
ⓘ
surface form:
Tariff Act of 1930
|
| primaryFunction |
address unfair acts in the importation of articles into the United States
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address unfair methods of competition in import trade ⓘ protect U.S. industries from unfair trade practices involving imported goods ⓘ |
| procedureType | administrative adjudication ⓘ |
| remedyType |
cease and desist order
ⓘ
general exclusion order ⓘ limited exclusion order ⓘ |
| requires | existence of a domestic industry for certain intellectual property claims ⓘ |
| standardOfProof | preponderance of the evidence ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
importation of articles into the United States
ⓘ
sale for importation into the United States ⓘ sale within the United States after importation ⓘ |
| usedBy | U.S. intellectual property owners to combat infringing imports ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 Description of subject: Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 is a key U.S. trade law provision that allows the government to investigate and block unfair trade practices involving imported goods, including intellectual property infringement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
United States International Trade Commission