Any statistical information furnished in confidence to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce by individuals, corporations, and firms shall be held to be confidential, and shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. Except as provided in subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44, the Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce shall not permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Bureau to examine such individual reports, nor shall he permit any statistics of domestic commerce to be published in such manner as to reveal the identity of the individual, corporation, or firm furnishing such data.
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CHAPTER 5— STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
§ 172. Transfer of duties of Department of Labor; special investigations
§ 175. Additional duties of Bureau
§ 176. Collection of commercial statistics
§ 176a. Confidential nature of information furnished Bureau
§ 178. Collection of statistics of foreign and interstate commerce and transportation
§ 182. Statistics of manufactures
§ 188. Publication of commercial information
§§ 189, 189a. Repealed. , (c), ,
§ 190. Discussions in commercial reports of partisan questions
§ 191. Terms of measure, weight, and money in commercial reports
§§ 192, 192a. Repealed. , (b), ,
§ 196. Payments for rent of offices in foreign countries
§§ 197 to 197d. Repealed. , title XI, § 1131(54),