---
type: Body
title: "United States Trade Representative"
classification: "executive-office"
chamber: "executive"
code: "EXEC-US-TRADE-REPRESENTATIVE-UNITED-STATES-TRADE-REPRESENTATIVE"
parent: "us/executive/us-trade-representative"
schedule_level: "I"
sources:
  - field: definition
    source: "5 U.S.C. § 5312 (Executive Schedule, Level I)"
confidence: official
tags: [body, executive, executive-office]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---

# United States Trade Representative

Cabinet-rank office (Executive Schedule Level I, 5 U.S.C. § 5312), head of the [Office of the United States Trade Representative](/us/executive/us-trade-representative/index.md).

## Empowered by the U.S. Code

144 sections of the U.S. Code vest authority in this office. A sample:

- [5 U.S.C. § 3330f](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-33/section-3330f.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5314](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5314.md)
- [6 U.S.C. § 945](/legal/us/code/title-06/chapter-3/section-945.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 16](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-1/section-16.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 1748](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-42/section-1748.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2278](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-55/section-2278.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 4003](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-71/section-4003.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 4503](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-76/section-4503.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5606](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-87/section-5606.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5622](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-87/section-5622.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5623](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-87/section-5623.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5674](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-87/section-5674.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 5675](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-87/section-5675.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 608e–1](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-26/section-608e-1.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 626](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-26/section-626.md)
- [10 U.S.C. § 2281](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-136/section-2281.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 635](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-6a/section-635.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 635a](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-6a/section-635a.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 635i–3](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-6a/section-635i-3.md)
- [15 U.S.C. § 18b](/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-1/section-18b.md)
- [15 U.S.C. § 2952](/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-56a/section-2952.md)
- [15 U.S.C. § 3710](/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-63/section-3710.md)
- [15 U.S.C. § 3718](/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-63/section-3718.md)
- [15 U.S.C. § 4656](/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-72a/section-4656.md)
- …and 119 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)