Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

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legal/us/code/title-19/chapter-13/section-2572.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "19 U.S.C. § 2572"
+description: "Exemptions"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 19
+title_name: "CUSTOMS DUTIES"
+chapter_number: "13"
+chapter_name: "TRADE AGREEMENTS ACT OF 1979"
+section: "2572"
+citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2572"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc19@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t19/s2572"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-19/usc19.xml"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 19 U.S.C. § 2572 - Exemptions
+
+## Text
+
+This subchapter does not apply to—
+
+(1) any standards activity engaged in by any Federal agency or State agency for the use (including, but not limited to, use with respect to research and development, production, or consumption) of that agency or the use of another such agency; or
+
+(2) any standards activity engaged in by any private person solely for use in the production or consumption of products by that person.
+
+(Pub. L. 96–39, title IV, § 452, July 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 250.)