The Protection of Trading Interests (Us Reexport Control) Order 1982

Whereas it appears to the Secretary of State that the measures to which this order relates have been taken under the laws of the United States of America (“the United States”) for regulating or controlling international trade and that those measures, in so far as they apply to things done or to be done outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States by persons carrying on business in the United Kingdom, are damaging or threaten to damage the trading interests of the United Kingdom:

Now therefore the Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under section 1(1) of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 (the “1980 Act”) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—