### Question
What does United States mean?


### Answer
**United States** has the following meaning in *APPENDIX U.S.C. § 2415*:

> the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, dependency, or possession of the United States, and includes the outer Continental Shelf, as defined in section 2(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331(a))

#### Citation:
  - *APPENDIX U.S.C. § 2415*
  - Heading: **EXPORT REGULATION**

