§ 288k. Extension of certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1997

   Pub. L. 105–22 § 1 · 111 Stat. 236

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 288k

   (Pub. L. 105–22, § 1, June 27, 1997, 111 Stat. 236.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Pub. L. 105–22, § 1, June 27, 1997, 111 Stat. 236.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES TO HONG KONG ECONOMIC AND TRADE OFFICES. (a) Application of International Organizations Immunities Act.— The provisions of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288 et seq.) may be extended to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same conditions as such provisions may be extended to a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such participation. (b) Application of International Agreement on Certain State and Local Taxation.— The President is authorized to apply the provisions of Article I of the Agreement on State and Local Taxation of Foreign Employees of Public International Organizations, done at Washington on April 21, 1994, to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices. (c) Definition.— The term “Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices” refers to Hong Kong’s official economic and trade missions in the United States.

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