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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 48 — Taiwan Relations

§ 3311. Reporting requirements

Statutory text

(a)

Texts of agreements to be transmitted to Congress; secret agreements to be transmitted to Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee

The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Congress the text of any agreement to which the Institute is a party. However, any such agreement the immediate public disclosure of which would, in the opinion of the President, be prejudicial to the national security of the United States shall not be so transmitted to the Congress but shall be transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives under an appropriate injunction of secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from the President.

(b)

Agreements

For purposes of subsection (a), the term “agreement” includes—

(1)

any agreement entered into between the Institute and the governing authorities on Taiwan or the instrumentality established by Taiwan; and

(2)

any agreement entered into between the Institute and an agency of the United States Government.

(c)

Congressional notification, review, and approval requirements and procedures

Agreements and transactions made or to be made by or through the Institute shall be subject to the same congressional notification, review, and approval requirements and procedures as if such agreements and transactions were made by or through the agency of the United States Government on behalf of which the Institute is acting.

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. Taiwan Relations Act

    Pub. L. 96–8 § 12 · 93 Stat. 14

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3311

    Pub. L. 96–8, § 12, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 20

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 96–8, § 12, Apr. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 20

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 12. reporting requirement (a) The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Congress the text of any agreement to which the Institute is a party. However, any such agreement the immediate public disclosure of which would, in the opinion of the President, be prejudicial to the national security of the United States shall not be so transmitted to the Congress but shall be transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives under an appropriate injunction of secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from the President. (b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term “agreement” includes— (1) any agreement entered into between the Institute and the governing authorities on Taiwan or the instrumentality established by Taiwan; and (2) any agreement entered into between the Institute and an agency of the United States Government. (c) Agreements and transactions made or to be made by or through the Institute shall be subject to the same congressional notification, review, and approval requirements and procedures as if such agreements and transactions were made by or through the agency of the United States Government on behalf of which the Institute is acting. (d) During the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act, the Secretary of State shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, every six months, a report describing and reviewing economic relations between the United States and Taiwan, noting any interference with normal commercial relations.

  2. Pub. L. 98–164 title X § 1011(a)(3) · 97 Stat. 1017

    Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 3311(d)

    Pub. L. 98–164 struck out subsec. (d) which required the Secretary of State to make semi-annual reports respecting economic relations between the United States and Taiwan

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 98–164 struck out subsec. (d) which required the Secretary of State to make semi-annual reports respecting economic relations between the United States and Taiwan.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (3) Section 12(d) of the Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3311(d)).

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1983—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 98–164 struck out subsec. (d) which required the Secretary of State to make semi-annual reports respecting economic relations between the United States and Taiwan.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective as of , see section 18 of Pub. L. 96–8, set out as a note under section 3301 of this title.

Credits

1979–1983 · 2 acts
  1. 1979Pub. L. 96–8, § 12, , 93 Stat. 20
  2. 1983Pub. L. 98–164, title X, § 1011(a)(3), , 97 Stat. 1061.
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(Pub. L. 96–8, § 12, , 93 Stat. 20; Pub. L. 98–164, title X, § 1011(a)(3), , 97 Stat. 1061.)

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