Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 15 > Chapter 2 > Subchapter II - Promotion of Export Trade

• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• commerce: means commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or in any Territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, or between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory and any State or foreign nation or between the District of Columbia and any State or Territory or foreign nation. See 15 USC 55
• Commission: means the Federal Trade Commission. See 15 USC 55
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• possession: includes , among other possessions, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. See 42 USC 201
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• Service: means the Public Health Service. See 42 USC 201
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• State: includes the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories and possessions of the United States, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. See 42 USC 1396r-1b
• Territory: includes the insular possessions of the United States, and also any Territory of the United States. See 15 USC 55