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United States Department of Commerce

The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.

"Department of Commerce" redirects here. For other uses, see Department of Commerce (disambiguation).

Agency overview

February 14, 1903 (1903-02-14)

U.S. federal government

Herbert C. Hoover Building
1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.
38°53′39″N 77°0′58″W / 38.89417°N 77.01611°W / 38.89417; -77.01611

46,608 (2018)[1]

US$9.67 billion (2018)
US$14.2 billion (est. 2010)
US$9.3 billion (est. 2011)
US$8.6 billion (2014)[2]

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Among its tasks are gathering economic and demographic data for business and government decision making and helping to set industrial standards. Its main purpose is to create jobs, promote economic growth, encourage sustainable development and block harmful trade practices of other nations.[3]


It is headed by the secretary of commerce, who reports directly to the president of the United States, and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The Department of Commerce is headquartered in the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.

Bureau of Industry and Security

Commerce Department trade mission controversy

Title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations

Title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations

Title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations

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Brandes, Joseph. Herbert Hoover and Economic Diplomacy: Department of Commerce Policy, 1921–1928. (U of Pittsburgh Press, 1970).

Clements, Kendrick A.The Life of Herbert Hoover (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) pp. 209–38.

Cohen, Stephen D., and Stephen David Cohen. The making of United States international economic policy: principles, problems, and proposals for reform (Greenwood, 2000).

Hawley, Ellis. "Herbert Hoover, the Commerce Secretariat, and the Vision of an 'Associative State', 1921–1928". Journal of American History, (June 1974) 61#1 : 116–40 Archived January 10, 2021, at the Wayback Machine

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Lee, David D. "Herbert Hoover and the Development of Commercial Aviation, 1921–1926". Business History Review 58.1 (1984): 78–102.

Seely, Bruce E. "Engineers and Government–Business Cooperation: Highway Standards and the Bureau of Public Roads, 1900–1940". Business History Review 58.1 (1984): 51–77.

Weems, Robert E., and Lewis A. Randolph. "'The Right Man': James A. Jackson and the Origins of US Government Interest in Black Business". Enterprise & Society 6.2 (2005): 254–77.

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