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Defined in 4 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

United States Code

7 U.S.C. § 1561 — for the purposes of this chapter

The term “foreign commerce” means commerce between the United States, its possessions, or any Territory of the United States, and any foreign country.

7 U.S.C. § 589 — in this chapter

Except as provided herein, the term “foreign commerce” means commerce between any State, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside of the United States or its possessions.

7 U.S.C. § 599 — in this chapter

Except as provided herein, the term “foreign commerce” means commerce between any State, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside of the United States or its possessions.

16 U.S.C. § 1532 — for the purposes of this chapter

The term “foreign commerce” includes, among other things, any transaction—

(A) between persons within one foreign country;

(B) between persons in two or more foreign countries;

(C) between a person within the United States and a person in a foreign country; or

(D) between persons within the United States, where the fish and wildlife in question are moving in any country or countries outside the United States.

46 U.S.C. § 109 — in this title

In General.—In this title, the terms “foreign commerce” and “foreign trade” mean commerce or trade between a place in the United States and a place in a foreign country.

46 U.S.C. § 53101 — in this chapter (4 versions over time)

Foreign commerce.—The term "foreign commerce" means—

(A) commerce or trade between the United States, its territories or possessions, or the District of Columbia, and a foreign country; and

(B) commerce or trade between foreign countries.

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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

“Commerce which in some sense is necessarily connected with these nations, transactions which either immediately or at some stage of their progress must be extra-territorial. The phrase can never be applied to transactions wholly internal.”... “Nor... because the products of domestic enterprise in agriculture or manufactures, or in the arts, may ultimately become the subjects of foreign commerce, that the control of the means or the encouragements by which enterprise is fostered and protected is legitimately within the import of the phrase foreign commerce.” Veazie v. Moor, r4 How. (U. S.) 568, 673, 14 L. Ed. 646.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Commerce or trade between the United States and foreign countries. Co.m. v. Housatonic R. Co., 148 Mass. 264, 9 N. B. 547; Foster v. New Orleans, 94 U. S. 246, 24 L. Ed. 122. The term is sometimes applied to commerce between ports of two sister states not lying on the same coast, e. p., New York and San Francisco.

Defined under Commerce in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

’ Commerce or trade between the United States and foreign countries. The term is sometimes applied to commerce between ports of two sister states not lying on the saine coast, e. g., New York and San Francisco,