Skip to content

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Part B · Chapter 62 — International Financial Policy

§ 5332. Actions to facilitate creation of Authority

Statutory text

(a)

In general

No funds, appropriations, contributions, callable capital, financial guarantee, or any other financial support or obligation or contingent support or obligation on the part of the United States Government may be used for the creation, operation, or support of the International Debt Management Authority specified in section 5331 of this title, without the express approval of the Congress through subsequent law, nor shall any expenses associated with such authority, either directly or indirectly, accrue to any United States person without the consent of such person. Except as restricted in the preceding sentence, the Secretary of the Treasury shall review all potential resources available to the multilateral financial institutions which could be used to support the creation of the International Debt Management Authority. In the course of this review, the Secretary shall direct—

(1)

the United States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to determine the amount of, and alternative methods by which, gold stock of the Fund which, subject to action by its Board of Governors, could be pledged as collateral to obtain financing for the activities of the authority specified in section 5331 of this title; and

(2)

the United States Executive Director to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to determine the amount of, and alternative methods by which, liquid assets controlled by such Bank and not currently committed to any loan program which, subject to action by its Board of Governors, could be pledged as collateral for obtaining financing for the activities of the authority specified in section 5331 of this title.

The Secretary of the Treasury shall include a report on the results of the review in the first report submitted under section 5331(c) of this title.

(b)

Construction of section

Subsection (a) shall not be construed to affect any provision of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund or of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or any agreement entered into under either of such Agreements.

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. International Debt Management Act of 1988

    Pub. L. 100–418 title III § 3112 · 102 Stat. 1107

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 5332

    (Pub. L. 100–418, title III, § 3112, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1378.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 100–418, title III, § 3112, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1378.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 3112. ACTIONS TO FACILITATE CREATION OF THE AUTHORITY. (a) In General.— No funds, appropriations, contributions, callable capital, financial guarantee, or any other financial support or obligation or contingent support or obligation on the part of the United States Government may be used for the creation, operation, or support of the International Debt Management Authority specified in section 3111, without the express approval of the Congress through subsequent law, nor shall any expenses associated with such authority, either directly or indirectly, accrue to any United States person without the consent of such person. Except as restricted in the preceding sentence, the Secretary of the Treasury shall review all potential resources available to the multilateral financial institutions which could be used to support the creation of the International Debt Management Authority. In the course of this review, the Secretary shall direct— (1) the United States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to determine the amount of, and alternative methods by which, gold stock of the Fund which, subject to action by its Board of Governors, could be pledged as collateral to obtain financing for the activities of the authority specified in section 3111; and (2) the United States Executive Director to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to determine the amount of, and alternative methods by which, liquid assets controlled by such Bank and not currently committed to any loan program which, subject to action by its Board of Governors, could be pledged as collateral for obtaining financing for the activities of the authority specified in section 3111. Reports. The Secretary of the Treasury shall include a report on the results of the review in the first report submitted under section 3111(c). (b) Construction of Section.— Subsection (a) shall not be construed to affect any provision of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund or of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or any agreement entered into under either of such Agreements.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 100–418, title III, § 3112, , 102 Stat. 1378.)

Parsed from the official OLRC USLM XML in data/usc_all/usc22.xml · release point 119-108 · OLRC build 2026-09-09

USLM identifier /us/usc/t22/s5332